This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

published:10 Nov 2017

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Summit9-10November 2017
This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

published:09 Nov 2017

views:1310

Anti-corruption officials have detained a chief Romanian prosecutor for questioning.
AlinaBica heads a government department investigating mafia,organized crime and terrorism.
She is accused of abusing a previous role on a ministry of justice committee by approving a government payment that was overvalued by 60 million euros.
The case is part of an investigation that so far extends to two of Bica's former colleagues as well as at least one businessman and an ethnic Hungarian MP.
Romania's n…
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The alleged owner of a chain of medical marijuana clinics faces criminal charges in one of the first cases of its kind in the state. Prosecutors said it's a criminal enterprise, a prescription mill generating millions of dollars, with most of the money laundered and sent overseas. Juliette Goodrich reports. (2/11/15)

published:12 Feb 2015

views:1292

Crimea’s chief prosecutor, who also happens to be an Internet meme and a cult cartoon icon, sees the peninsular clearer of crime than it had been before the referendum on joining Russia.
“We've achieved many positive results over the last two years since our reunification with Russia, results we didn’t see while it had been a part of Ukraine,” she said.
“Only now we managed to put forward charges against some of them, like Aleksandr Danilchenko and NikolayKozhukhar (leaders of the Bashmaki gang), who are in pretrial detention in Simpheropol. Andrey Laptev is already serving his sentence,” Poklonskaya said.
Channel "RT TV"
https://www.rt.com/news/335852-poklonskaya-crimea-prosecutor-popular/

Criminal Minds writer and retired FBI agent, Jim Clemente discusses the circumstances that accompany the recent murders of several members of the district attorney's office in Texas, and the level of sophistication that imply that the criminals were organized.
Watch the full Crime Time with Jim Clemente discussing the Texas DA murders and more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Z490udFDc

published:05 Apr 2013

views:3044

Kathryn is sharing about the first case of the US government using blockchain to fight fraud. She is sharing about how they could shut down the silk road and even indicted federal agents in the process.
Based in San Francisco, Kathryn Haun is a federal prosecutor with the U.S.Department of Justice and is its first-ever coordinator for emerging financial technologies. Since 2006, she has served as an AssistantU.S. Attorney, first in the Washington D.C. area and later in San Francisco, California. She has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of violations of federal criminal law in U.S. courts, with a focus on organized crime syndicates, cybercrime, the Dark Net, and fraud. In addition to her role at the Justice Department, she teaches Stanford Law School’s first-ever course on Cybercrime and Digital Currency and is frequently called on by U.S. and international policymakers for her expertise in these areas.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

published:26 Oct 2016

views:100900

(12 Apr 2012) 1. Close up shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressionist Paul Cezanne
2. Medium shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressionist Paul Cezanne on a easel guarded by two hooded and armed special unit policemen
3. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Ivica Dacic, Serbian Interior Minister:
"In a joint operation with Swiss colleagues, in an action that took place over the last two days, four people were arrested, from whom this painting was confiscated. We also confiscated around 1.5 million euros, around 60 thousand swiss francs, four vehicles, five guns, etcetera."
4. Wide shot of Interior Minister Dacic at press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Miljko Radisavljevic, Serbia's Organised Crimes Prosecutor:
"The Boy in the Red Vest by Paul Cezanne will be returned to its owner. Serbia's police and prosecution raised the criminal charges in Serbia against these people who committed criminal acts in Switzerland."
6. Wide shot of the police officials looking at the painting
STORYLINE:
A masterpiece by French impressionist Paul Cezanne, which was stolen from a private Swiss museum in 2008, has been recovered in Serbia, police said on Thursday.
During a news conference in the capital Belgrade, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic described the operation.
"In a joint operation with Swiss colleagues, in an action that took place over the last two days, four people were arrested, from whom this painting was confiscated," he said, and money, weapons and vehicles were also seized.
The officials played a video showing how police had arrested one of the four suspects in a Belgrade suburb and found the painting in the roof upholstery of a black van, handcuffed the driver and dragged him away.
Dacic confirmed that the four, including the leader of the gang that conducted the robbery, were arrested in raids in the capital Belgrade and the central city of Cacak on Wednesday and Thursday.
Officials displayed "The Boy in the Red Vest" by the French impressionist, with two masked Serbian special policemen armed with machine guns standing alongside it.
A Swiss expert authenticated the oil on canvas painting, which was stolen from the E. G. Buhrle Collection in Zurich, along with three other masterpieces by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Edgar Degas.
Zurich prosecutors also said that the museum certified that the painting is the original by Cezanne.
The work was worth 100 millionSwiss francs (110 (m) million US dollars) when it was stolen by three masked gunmen who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, in what was one of the biggest art thefts in Europe.
Art experts have suggested the robbers took advantage of a low-security Swiss museum without knowing about the paintings or how difficult it can be to sell such well-known stolen art works.
Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said the police raids, planned since 2010, took place when the suspected robbers decided to take the painting to a wealthy Serb who agreed to buy it for 4.6 (m) million US dollars.
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Federal prosecutors are using mob-busting tactics to catch and disrupt online crooks, applying a law written to dismantle Mafia families to pursue loose affiliations of thieves scattered around the world. The capacity of hackers and thieves to steal millions of dollars—in part through online marketplaces on which they can trade stolen credit-card numbers—is prompting concern among prosecutors.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/cybercrime-is-likened-to-organized-crime-1404841253?mod=rss_Technology
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published:08 Jul 2014

views:69

(1 Mar 2012)
1. Various of officials posing for group photo
2. Wide of Adam Blackwell, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary for Multidimensional Security approaching podium
3. Wide of Blackwell addressing crowd
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Adam Blackwell, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary for Multidimensional Security:
"The participation of criminal bands in the election process, threatening or even murdering candidates and in many cases imposing their own candidates, is another expression of the risks that organised crime pose to the preservation of our democratic institutions."
5. Wide of crowd
6. Mid of photographers
7. Wide of Antonio Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Mazzitelli, Head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America:
"Because of their (criminal gangs) capacity to create new markets, diversify their goods and services offering, overcome borders, develop alliances thanks to a series of networks always harder to detect and prosecute, we must step up our efforts."
9. Wide of Mazzitelli addressing crowd
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Mazzitelli, Head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America:
"I am sure that the terrible price all citizens of the hemisphere are paying, and the blood of so many public servants, police officers, prosecutors and judges and innocent victims won't be spilt in vain."
11. Mid of cameraman and sign language interpreter
12. Wide of Mazzitelli
STORYLINE:
Members of the Organisation of American States (OAS) met in Mexico City on Thursday, with organised crime in the region topping the agenda.
Mexico has expressed its concern about the possibility of criminal bands interfering in upcoming presidential elections after finding evidence that criminals sought to influence a recent election in the western state of Michoacan.
Adam Blackwell, OAS secretary for Multidimensional Security, said transnational organised crime threatened economic and democratic stability.
"The participation of criminal bands in the election process," said Blackwell, "is another expression of the risks that organised crime pose to the preservation of our democratic institutions."
Antonio Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America, said said the fight against organised crime needed to be stepped up and will serve to strengthen public institutions.
"I am sure that the terrible price all citizens of the hemisphere are paying, and the blood of so many public servants, police officers, prosecutors and judges and innocent victims won't be spilt in vain," said Mazzitelli.
The two-day meeting will gather prosecutors and attorney generals of the 34 active members to discuss solutions to fight transnational drug organisations.
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Organised crime

Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist groups, are politically motivated. Sometimes criminal organizations force people to do business with them, such as when a gang extorts money from shopkeepers for so-called "protection".Gangs may become disciplined enough to be considered organized. A criminal organization or gang can also be referred to as a mafia, mob, or crime syndicate; the network, subculture and community of criminals may be referred to as the underworld.

Other organizations—including states, militaries, police forces, and corporations—may sometimes use organized crime methods to conduct their business, but their powers derive from their status as formal social institutions. There is a tendency to distinguish organized crime from other forms of crimes, such as, white-collar crime, financial crimes, political crimes, war crime, state crimes, and treason. This distinction is not always apparent and the academic debate is ongoing. For example, in failed states that can no longer perform basic functions such as education, security, or governance, usually due to fractious violence or extreme poverty, organised crime, governance and war are often complementary to each other. The term Parliamentary Mafiocracy has been used to describe democratic countries whose political, social and economic institutions are under the control of a few families and business oligarchs.

Crime

In ordinary language, the term crime denotes an unlawful act punishable by a state. The term "crime" does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition, though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law. One proposed definition is that a crime or offence (or criminal offence) is an act harmful not only to some individual or individuals but also to a community, society or the state ("a public wrong"). Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law.

The notion that acts such as murder, rape and theft are to be prohibited exists worldwide. What precisely is a criminal offence is defined by criminal law of each country. While many have a catalogue of crimes called the criminal code, in some common law countries no such comprehensive statute exists.

Bulger served as an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) beginning in 1975, according to the FBI. Bulger denies this. However, as a result, the Bureau largely ignored his organization in exchange for information about the inner workings of the rival of the Winter Hill Gang and the Flanagan Gang, the Italian AmericanPatriarca crime family. Beginning in 1997, the New England media exposed criminal actions by federal, state, and local law enforcement officials tied to Bulger. For the FBI especially, this caused great embarrassment. Bulger fled Boston and went into hiding on December 23, 1994, after being tipped off by his former FBI handler about a pending indictment under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). For 16 years, he remained at large. For 12 of those years, Bulger was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 2

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 2

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 2

This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

10:02:46

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 1

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 1

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 1

Summit9-10November 2017
This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

0:56

Romania: Organised crime prosecutor arrested for corruption

Romania: Organised crime prosecutor arrested for corruption

Romania: Organised crime prosecutor arrested for corruption

Anti-corruption officials have detained a chief Romanian prosecutor for questioning.
AlinaBica heads a government department investigating mafia,organized crime and terrorism.
She is accused of abusing a previous role on a ministry of justice committee by approving a government payment that was overvalued by 60 million euros.
The case is part of an investigation that so far extends to two of Bica's former colleagues as well as at least one businessman and an ethnic Hungarian MP.
Romania's n…
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The alleged owner of a chain of medical marijuana clinics faces criminal charges in one of the first cases of its kind in the state. Prosecutors said it's a criminal enterprise, a prescription mill generating millions of dollars, with most of the money laundered and sent overseas. Juliette Goodrich reports. (2/11/15)

Crimea’s chief prosecutor, who also happens to be an Internet meme and a cult cartoon icon, sees the peninsular clearer of crime than it had been before the referendum on joining Russia.
“We've achieved many positive results over the last two years since our reunification with Russia, results we didn’t see while it had been a part of Ukraine,” she said.
“Only now we managed to put forward charges against some of them, like Aleksandr Danilchenko and NikolayKozhukhar (leaders of the Bashmaki gang), who are in pretrial detention in Simpheropol. Andrey Laptev is already serving his sentence,” Poklonskaya said.
Channel "RT TV"
https://www.rt.com/news/335852-poklonskaya-crimea-prosecutor-popular/

1:21

Organized Crime Prosecutors Raid Panama Papers Firm Office

Organized Crime Prosecutors Raid Panama Papers Firm Office

Organized Crime Prosecutors Raid Panama Papers Firm Office

34:51

Gregor McGill, Head of Organised Crime Division, Crown Prosecution Service

Gregor McGill, Head of Organised Crime Division, Crown Prosecution Service

Gregor McGill, Head of Organised Crime Division, Crown Prosecution Service

Texas DAs Murdered By Organized Crime (the Aryan Brotherhood?...)

Criminal Minds writer and retired FBI agent, Jim Clemente discusses the circumstances that accompany the recent murders of several members of the district attorney's office in Texas, and the level of sophistication that imply that the criminals were organized.
Watch the full Crime Time with Jim Clemente discussing the Texas DA murders and more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Z490udFDc

22:38

How the US government is using blockchain to fight fraud | Kathryn Haun | TEDxSanFrancisco

How the US government is using blockchain to fight fraud | Kathryn Haun | TEDxSanFrancisco

How the US government is using blockchain to fight fraud | Kathryn Haun | TEDxSanFrancisco

Kathryn is sharing about the first case of the US government using blockchain to fight fraud. She is sharing about how they could shut down the silk road and even indicted federal agents in the process.
Based in San Francisco, Kathryn Haun is a federal prosecutor with the U.S.Department of Justice and is its first-ever coordinator for emerging financial technologies. Since 2006, she has served as an AssistantU.S. Attorney, first in the Washington D.C. area and later in San Francisco, California. She has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of violations of federal criminal law in U.S. courts, with a focus on organized crime syndicates, cybercrime, the Dark Net, and fraud. In addition to her role at the Justice Department, she teaches Stanford Law School’s first-ever course on Cybercrime and Digital Currency and is frequently called on by U.S. and international policymakers for her expertise in these areas.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

1:23

Interior min, prosecutor for organised crime give press conference

Interior min, prosecutor for organised crime give press conference

Interior min, prosecutor for organised crime give press conference

(12 Apr 2012) 1. Close up shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressionist Paul Cezanne
2. Medium shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressionist Paul Cezanne on a easel guarded by two hooded and armed special unit policemen
3. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Ivica Dacic, Serbian Interior Minister:
"In a joint operation with Swiss colleagues, in an action that took place over the last two days, four people were arrested, from whom this painting was confiscated. We also confiscated around 1.5 million euros, around 60 thousand swiss francs, four vehicles, five guns, etcetera."
4. Wide shot of Interior Minister Dacic at press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Miljko Radisavljevic, Serbia's Organised Crimes Prosecutor:
"The Boy in the Red Vest by Paul Cezanne will be returned to its owner. Serbia's police and prosecution raised the criminal charges in Serbia against these people who committed criminal acts in Switzerland."
6. Wide shot of the police officials looking at the painting
STORYLINE:
A masterpiece by French impressionist Paul Cezanne, which was stolen from a private Swiss museum in 2008, has been recovered in Serbia, police said on Thursday.
During a news conference in the capital Belgrade, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic described the operation.
"In a joint operation with Swiss colleagues, in an action that took place over the last two days, four people were arrested, from whom this painting was confiscated," he said, and money, weapons and vehicles were also seized.
The officials played a video showing how police had arrested one of the four suspects in a Belgrade suburb and found the painting in the roof upholstery of a black van, handcuffed the driver and dragged him away.
Dacic confirmed that the four, including the leader of the gang that conducted the robbery, were arrested in raids in the capital Belgrade and the central city of Cacak on Wednesday and Thursday.
Officials displayed "The Boy in the Red Vest" by the French impressionist, with two masked Serbian special policemen armed with machine guns standing alongside it.
A Swiss expert authenticated the oil on canvas painting, which was stolen from the E. G. Buhrle Collection in Zurich, along with three other masterpieces by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Edgar Degas.
Zurich prosecutors also said that the museum certified that the painting is the original by Cezanne.
The work was worth 100 millionSwiss francs (110 (m) million US dollars) when it was stolen by three masked gunmen who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, in what was one of the biggest art thefts in Europe.
Art experts have suggested the robbers took advantage of a low-security Swiss museum without knowing about the paintings or how difficult it can be to sell such well-known stolen art works.
Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said the police raids, planned since 2010, took place when the suspected robbers decided to take the painting to a wealthy Serb who agreed to buy it for 4.6 (m) million US dollars.
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0:31

Cybercrime Is Likened To Organized Crime

Cybercrime Is Likened To Organized Crime

Cybercrime Is Likened To Organized Crime

Federal prosecutors are using mob-busting tactics to catch and disrupt online crooks, applying a law written to dismantle Mafia families to pursue loose affiliations of thieves scattered around the world. The capacity of hackers and thieves to steal millions of dollars—in part through online marketplaces on which they can trade stolen credit-card numbers—is prompting concern among prosecutors.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/cybercrime-is-likened-to-organized-crime-1404841253?mod=rss_Technology
http://www.wochit.com

1:58

Attorney generals and prosecutors discuss fight against crime

Attorney generals and prosecutors discuss fight against crime

Attorney generals and prosecutors discuss fight against crime

(1 Mar 2012)
1. Various of officials posing for group photo
2. Wide of Adam Blackwell, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary for Multidimensional Security approaching podium
3. Wide of Blackwell addressing crowd
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Adam Blackwell, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary for Multidimensional Security:
"The participation of criminal bands in the election process, threatening or even murdering candidates and in many cases imposing their own candidates, is another expression of the risks that organised crime pose to the preservation of our democratic institutions."
5. Wide of crowd
6. Mid of photographers
7. Wide of Antonio Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Mazzitelli, Head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America:
"Because of their (criminal gangs) capacity to create new markets, diversify their goods and services offering, overcome borders, develop alliances thanks to a series of networks always harder to detect and prosecute, we must step up our efforts."
9. Wide of Mazzitelli addressing crowd
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Mazzitelli, Head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America:
"I am sure that the terrible price all citizens of the hemisphere are paying, and the blood of so many public servants, police officers, prosecutors and judges and innocent victims won't be spilt in vain."
11. Mid of cameraman and sign language interpreter
12. Wide of Mazzitelli
STORYLINE:
Members of the Organisation of American States (OAS) met in Mexico City on Thursday, with organised crime in the region topping the agenda.
Mexico has expressed its concern about the possibility of criminal bands interfering in upcoming presidential elections after finding evidence that criminals sought to influence a recent election in the western state of Michoacan.
Adam Blackwell, OAS secretary for Multidimensional Security, said transnational organised crime threatened economic and democratic stability.
"The participation of criminal bands in the election process," said Blackwell, "is another expression of the risks that organised crime pose to the preservation of our democratic institutions."
Antonio Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America, said said the fight against organised crime needed to be stepped up and will serve to strengthen public institutions.
"I am sure that the terrible price all citizens of the hemisphere are paying, and the blood of so many public servants, police officers, prosecutors and judges and innocent victims won't be spilt in vain," said Mazzitelli.
The two-day meeting will gather prosecutors and attorney generals of the 34 active members to discuss solutions to fight transnational drug organisations.
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2:32

Federal prosecutors are charging dozens of reputed members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey

Federal prosecutors are charging dozens of reputed members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey

Federal prosecutors are charging dozens of reputed members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey

HEADLINE: Gambino crime family rounded up, charged
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CAPTION: Federal prosecutors are charging dozens of reputed members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey and New York with murders, drug trafficking, robberies and extortion. It's one of the largest mob takedowns in recent memory. (Feb. 8)
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[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
((FONT: New York))
After a massive roundup of alleged top mafia figures, is there a power vacuum in New York City's organized crime underworld?
The government says yes.
((FONT: BentonCampbell, US Attorney))
"I would say it does create a significant vacuum. START VO OF MOBSTERS It's a significant issue that organized crime will now have to address because many of their members are either in custody or facing federal charges."
The "bread and butter" of mafia income is sports betting, and experts say there will always be someone willing to muscle forward and take the kick-ups from those lucrative bets.
((FONT: Bruce Cutler, MafiaAttorney))
"Gambling is an obsession with this country, they even have it on television."
Thursday the government took into custody what it says is the top tier leadership of the Gambino family.
((show photo of D'Amico))
((1992))
Those include reputed boss, John D'Amico, a-k-a Jackie the Nose.
The feds say he runs the family's vast network of criminal enterprises, and has a penchant for gourmet food and gambling.
((show video of Cefalu in perp walk))
Alleged underboss and extortionist Domenico Cefalu, nicknamed "The Greaseball" is known for his old-school allegiance to the "omerta" code of mafia behavior, though he did time for heroin trafficking.
((show video of Carneglia in perp walk))
Accused Gambino soldier Charles Carneglia, called "Charlie Canig" by associates, is charged with five killings, including two men who had no connection to the mob.
((show video of Cali in perp walk))
The feds say Frank Cali, an alleged mafia captain, is the family's "bridge" to crime families in Sicily.
((show photo))
While Nicholas Corozzo, aka "Little Nick" is charged in connection with various construction project shakedowns across the city.
But mafia attorney Bruce Cutler, who has represented such notable mobsters as John Gotti, says racketeering cases are often difficult to prove.
"When you take away the labels, and the stripes, and the mafia, and the La Cosa Nostra and the blood oath, and all the Hollywood hype and the Sopranos business, where is the proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the client did or agreed to have something done on behalf of this enterprise?"
The government is proving it will aggressively prosecute the resurgent mafia.
((FONT: Thomas De Maria, NY Waterfront Commission))
"We will continue to be tenacious and ever vigilant to pursue and eradicate any criminal element that seeks to perpetrate evil in this great port and this great city."
In the meantime, it remains to be seen whether yet un named Gambino figures will step into the power gap, or those from other criminal organizations.
Ted Shaffrey, The Associated Press, New York
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0:53

Retailers face new threat: Organized crime

Retailers face new threat: Organized crime

Retailers face new threat: Organized crime

Retailers face new threat: Organized crime
Get your girl a pepper spray gel! You never know when she could us
Organized theft has surpassed internal theft to become the leading cause of retail loss, said RobertMoraca, vice president of loss prevention for the National Retail Federation. (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun video)
Lorraine MirabellaContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
They looked like any other shoppers browsing iPads and Apple Watches at the Apple Store in Towson.
But a security guard saw something amiss in the behavior of the four men in the store at Towson Town Center. Two of them — one wearing a blue jogging outfit, the other dressed in black pants and shirt — were acting as lookouts, blocking the views of sales associates. The other two were scooping up display items and slipping them into their vests. Then they all headed for the exit.
They didn’t get far. They were stopped by security guards, and police arrested three. The men, all from the Eastern European nation of Georgia, had driven down from New York in a minivan, police and prosecutors say. Inside, they say, officers found dozens of Apple devices.
The men were accused of stealing more than $1,500 worth of iPods and software. They were convicted last year of theft.
For retailers, simple shoplifting is an unavoidable cost of doing business. But now, industry analysts and law enforcement officials say, a greater threat is emerging: theft and fraud by highly organized criminal rings.
The high-stakes enterprises often operate across state lines. They might employ teams of “boosters” — often the homeless or the drug addicted — who go into stores to steal everything from laundry detergent and baby formula to designer clothes and diamonds. They fence stolen goods at pawn shops, kiosks, vans on the street and, increasingly, online auction sites.
And they’re becoming more brazen and more dangerous, analysts say, in some cases attacking store employees and even shoppers.
“We probably see organized retail crime incidents across our stores every day,” said Jim Cosseboom, manager of investigations and corporate asset protection for the supermarket operator Ahold USA, parent company of Giant, FoodLion and other chains.
“What they’re targeting is always shifting,” he says, from detergent to razor blades to seafood. But it’s anything “that can easily be sold for quick cash. …
“It’s a significant concern.”
Organized theft has surpassed internal theft to become the leading cause of retail loss, said Robert Moraca, vice president of loss prevention for the National Retail Federation. Analysts say the increase has been fueled by the opioid epidemic and by the growing understanding among criminals that theft can be quick, easy and profitable.
In a well choreographed assault, Moraca says, thieves can clear shelves of thousands of dollars’ worth of goods in minutes.
“And that’s happening in multiples,” he says. “It’s not just a group that gets together and wants to steal. These are groups that already exist for criminal purposes,” such as drug trafficking and human trafficking.
“These are hardened criminals, and they get into organized retail crime because it’s extremely profitable.”
Individual retailers contacted by The Sun were reluctant to discuss details. But the National Retail Federation reported that organized crime cost retailers $30 billion last year. The group recently surveyed retailers on organized crime; all of the respondents said they had been victimized in the previous year. They said they were spending an average of $545,000 on employees dedicated to fighting organized crime, an all-time high.
Coordinated efforts between retailers, store security, law enforcement and prosecutors have helped, analysts say, as has the emergence of associations focused on fighting organized retail crime. The Mid-Atlantic Organized Retail CrimeAlliance, which includes Maryland, brings together retailers, law enforcement, security and loss prevention officials to share data and intelligence on organized theft, robberies, counterfeiting, check and credit card fraud and other scams.
Thirty-four states have enacted laws against organized retail crime. Maryland has not. The Maryland Retailers Association wants legislation that would distinguish between organized retail theft and other types of theft.
“Being on the I-95 corridor, we are particularly susceptible to organized retail crime,” association President Cailey Locklair Tolle says. “Shoplifting in Maryland, both the instances of theft and the dollar amount that’s stolen every year, has steadily been on the rise, and part of it does have to do with organized retail crime.”
The group is concerned that the increase in the state threshold for felony theft from $1,000 to $1,500 last year will encourage more organized rings to operate in Maryland. The Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention looked at theft classifica

A number of allegations have been written about and several local, state, and federal investigations have taken place related to the notion of the Mena Airport as a CIA drop point in large scale cocaine trafficking beginning in the latter part of the 1980s. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805028048/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805028048&linkCode=as2&tag=tra0c7-20&linkId=c13ed0962050eee3b1d55b9a187dfe42
The topic has received some press coverage that has included allegations of awareness, participation and/or coverup involvement of figures such as future presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W.Bush, and George W. Bush, as well future Florida GovernorJeb Bush and Saline County prosecutor Dan Harmon (who was convicted of numerous felonies including drug and racketeering charges in 1997). The Mena airport was also associated with Adler Berriman (Barry) Seal, an American drug smuggler and aircraft pilot who flew covert flights for the CIA and the Medellín Cartel.
A criminal investigator from the Arkansas State Police, Russell Welch, who was assigned to investigate Mena airport claimed that he opened a letter which released electrostatically charged Anthrax spores in his face, and that he had his life saved after a prompt diagnosis by a doctor. He also claimed that later, his doctor's office was vandalized, robbed, and test results and correspondence with the CDC in Atlanta were stolen.
An investigation by the CIA's inspector general concluded that the CIA had no involvement in or knowledge of any illegal activities that may have occurred in Mena. The report said that the agency had conducted a training exercise at the airport in partnership with another Federal agency and that companies located at the airport had performed "routine aviation-related services on equipment owned by the CIA".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
The Whitewater controversy (also called the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.
A New York Times article written in March 1992, during the 1992U.S. presidential campaign, reported that the Clintons had invested and lost money in the Whitewater development project.[1] The article stimulated the interest of L. Jean Lewis, a Resolution Trust Corporation investigator who was looking into the failure of Madison GuarantySavings and Loan, owned by McDougal. She looked for connections between the savings and loan company and the Clintons, and on September 2, 1992, she submitted a criminal referral to the FBI naming Bill and Hillary Clinton as witnesses in the Madison Guaranty case. Little RockU.S. AttorneyCharles A. Banks and the FBI determined that the referral lacked merit, but she continued to pursue it. Between 1992 and 1994 she issued several additional referrals against the Clintons and repeatedly called the U.S. Attorney's Office in Little Rock and the Justice Department about the case.[2] Her referrals eventually became public knowledge, and she testified before the Senate Whitewater Committee in 1994.
David Hale, the source of criminal allegations against President Clinton in the Whitewater affair, claimed in November 1993 that Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, pressured him to provide an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, the partner of the Clintons in the Whitewater land deal.[3] Clinton supporters regarded Hale's allegations as questionable, as Hale had not mentioned Clinton in reference to this loan during the original FBI investigation of Madison Guaranty in 1989. Only after coming under indictment for this in 1993 did Hale make allegations against the Clintons.[4]
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation did result in convictions against the McDougals for their role in the Whitewater project, but the Clintons themselves were never prosecuted, as three separate inquiries found insufficient evidence linking them with the criminal conduct of others related to the land deal.[5] Bill Clinton's successor as Arkansas Governor, Jim Guy Tucker, was also convicted and served time in prison for his role in the fraud. Susan McDougal later served 18 months in prison for contempt of court for refusing to answer any questions relating to Whitewater, and was later granted a pardon by President Clinton just before leaving office.
The term Whitewater is also sometimes used to include other controversies from the Bill Clinton administration, especially those such as Travelgate, Filegate, and the circumstances surrounding Vince Foster's death, that were investigated by the Whitewater Independent Counsel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy

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James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. organized crime boss

James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. organized crime boss

James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. organized crime boss

James JosephWhitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston. Federal prosecutors indicted Bulger for 19 .

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Italian anti-mafia prosecutor says mafias now cooperating

Italian anti-mafia prosecutor says mafias now cooperating

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MILAN – Italys new national antimafia and antiterrorism prosecutor says that Italian organized crime gangs are cooperating to control international drug trafficking. Prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho told an antimafia conference in Milan on Thursday that the Italian mafias are not isolated. By now, they move together. The ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra, Cammora, also the groups from Puglia work together, coordinating, for example, ports they use for heroin and cocaine shipments. Cafiero De Raho urged Italian law enforcement and magistrates to cooperate on exchanging data and other information, saying it was the first step in the strategy to defeat organized crime. Italys justice minister, Andrea Orlando, said the mafia is a blemish on our competitiveness, and said organized crime must be combatted throughout the country not just in the south.

Police in Italy tackle new kind of mafia: The Black Axe

Palermo, Sicily — Police in the birthplace of the traditional Mafia moved against a new organized crime threat: “The Black Axe,” a Nigerian crime syndicate that has spread internationally.
Leonardo Agueci, deputy anti-Mafia prosecutor in Palermo, said: “Cosa Nostra tolerates the Nigerian mafia in Palermo. Cosa Nostra allowed the Nigerians to organize a subordinate structure they were tolerated as long as they didn’t come outside their perimeter.”
Police in several cities fanned out in the night with arrest warrants for 27 people. At least 17 were apprehended, authorities said, including the alleged head of the organization and the so-called Defence Minister who is accused of issuing the orders for brutal punishment. Authorities named FestusPedro Erhonmosele and Kenneth Osahon Aghaku among its alleged leaders. Authorities say the suspects ran, directly or indirectly, the management and control of illegal economic activities in certain areas: including debt collection, prostitution and drug trafficking.
The inside operations and its structure were revealed by an informant who was charged this summer and during his plea bargaining revealed his knowledge of the secretive criminal network, including the names of its senior members, authorities said. The Black Axe are reported to be a splinter group of Nigeria’s “Neo-Black Movement of Africa.”
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Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 2

This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination o...

published: 10 Nov 2017

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 1

Romania: Organised crime prosecutor arrested for corruption

Anti-corruption officials have detained a chief Romanian prosecutor for questioning.
AlinaBica heads a government department investigating mafia,organized crime and terrorism.
She is accused of abusing a previous role on a ministry of justice committee by approving a government payment that was overvalued by 60 million euros.
The case is part of an investigation that so far extends to two of Bica's former colleagues as well as at least one businessman and an ethnic Hungarian MP.
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The alleged owner of a chain of medical marijuana clinics faces criminal charges in one of the first cases of its kind in the state. Prosecutors said it's a criminal enterprise, a prescription mill generating millions of dollars, with most of the money laundered and sent overseas. Juliette Goodrich reports. (2/11/15)

Crimea’s chief prosecutor, who also happens to be an Internet meme and a cult cartoon icon, sees the peninsular clearer of crime than it had been before the referendum on joining Russia.
“We've achieved many positive results over the last two years since our reunification with Russia, results we didn’t see while it had been a part of Ukraine,” she said.
“Only now we managed to put forward charges against some of them, like Aleksandr Danilchenko and NikolayKozhukhar (leaders of the Bashmaki gang), who are in pretrial detention in Simpheropol. Andrey Laptev is already serving his sentence,” Poklonskaya said.
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Organized Crime Prosecutors Raid Panama Papers Firm Office

published: 13 Apr 2016

Gregor McGill, Head of Organised Crime Division, Crown Prosecution Service

Texas DAs Murdered By Organized Crime (the Aryan Brotherhood?...)

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Interior min, prosecutor for organised crime give press conference

(12 Apr 2012) 1. Close up shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressionist Paul Cezanne
2. Medium shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressionist Paul Cezanne on a easel guarded by two hooded and armed special unit policemen
3. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Ivica Dacic, Serbian Interior Minister:
"In a joint operation with Swiss colleagues, in an action that took place over the last two days, four people were arrested, from whom this painting was confiscated. We also confiscated around 1.5 million euros, around 60 thousand swiss francs, four vehicles, five guns, etcetera."
4. Wide shot of Interior Minister Dacic at press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Miljko Radisavljevic, Serbia's Organised Crimes Prosecutor:
"The Boy in the Red Vest by Paul Cezanne ...

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Cybercrime Is Likened To Organized Crime

Federal prosecutors are using mob-busting tactics to catch and disrupt online crooks, applying a law written to dismantle Mafia families to pursue loose affiliations of thieves scattered around the world. The capacity of hackers and thieves to steal millions of dollars—in part through online marketplaces on which they can trade stolen credit-card numbers—is prompting concern among prosecutors.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/cybercrime-is-likened-to-organized-crime-1404841253?mod=rss_Technology
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published: 08 Jul 2014

Attorney generals and prosecutors discuss fight against crime

(1 Mar 2012)
1. Various of officials posing for group photo
2. Wide of Adam Blackwell, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary for Multidimensional Security approaching podium
3. Wide of Blackwell addressing crowd
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Adam Blackwell, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary for Multidimensional Security:
"The participation of criminal bands in the election process, threatening or even murdering candidates and in many cases imposing their own candidates, is another expression of the risks that organised crime pose to the preservation of our democratic institutions."
5. Wide of crowd
6. Mid of photographers
7. Wide of Antonio Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Mazzitel...

published: 30 Jul 2015

Federal prosecutors are charging dozens of reputed members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey

HEADLINE: Gambino crime family rounded up, charged
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CAPTION: Federal prosecutors are charging dozens of reputed members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey and New York with murders, drug trafficking, robberies and extortion. It's one of the largest mob takedowns in recent memory. (Feb. 8)
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After a massive roundup of alleged top mafia figures, is there a power vacuum in New York City's organized crime underworld?
The government says yes.
((FONT: BentonCampbell, US Attorney))
"I would say it does create a significant vacuum. START VO OF MOBSTERS It's a significant issue that organized crime will now have to address b...

published: 31 Jul 2015

Retailers face new threat: Organized crime

Retailers face new threat: Organized crime
Get your girl a pepper spray gel! You never know when she could us
Organized theft has surpassed internal theft to become the leading cause of retail loss, said RobertMoraca, vice president of loss prevention for the National Retail Federation. (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun video)
Lorraine MirabellaContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
They looked like any other shoppers browsing iPads and Apple Watches at the Apple Store in Towson.
But a security guard saw something amiss in the behavior of the four men in the store at Towson Town Center. Two of them — one wearing a blue jogging outfit, the other dressed in black pants and shirt — were acting as lookouts, blocking the views of sales associates. The other two were scooping up display items and ...

A number of allegations have been written about and several local, state, and federal investigations have taken place related to the notion of the Mena Airport as a CIA drop point in large scale cocaine trafficking beginning in the latter part of the 1980s. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805028048/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805028048&linkCode=as2&tag=tra0c7-20&linkId=c13ed0962050eee3b1d55b9a187dfe42
The topic has received some press coverage that has included allegations of awareness, participation and/or coverup involvement of figures such as future presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W.Bush, and George W. Bush, as well future Florida GovernorJeb Bush and Saline County prosecutor Dan Harmon (who was convicted of numerous felonies inclu...

published: 25 May 2014

James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. organized crime boss

James JosephWhitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston. Federal prosecutors indicted Bulger for 19 .

published: 11 Jan 2017

Italian anti-mafia prosecutor says mafias now cooperating

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MILAN – Italys new national antimafia and antiterrorism prosecutor says that Italian organized crime gangs are cooperating to control international drug trafficking. Prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho told an antimafia conference in Milan on Thursday that the Italian mafias are not isolated. By now, they move together. The ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra, Cammora, also the groups from Puglia work together, coordinating, for example, ports they use for heroin and cocaine shipments. Cafiero De Raho urged Italian law enforcement and magistrates to cooperate on exchanging data and other information, saying it was the first step in the strategy to defeat organized crime. Italy...

Police in Italy tackle new kind of mafia: The Black Axe

Palermo, Sicily — Police in the birthplace of the traditional Mafia moved against a new organized crime threat: “The Black Axe,” a Nigerian crime syndicate that has spread internationally.
Leonardo Agueci, deputy anti-Mafia prosecutor in Palermo, said: “Cosa Nostra tolerates the Nigerian mafia in Palermo. Cosa Nostra allowed the Nigerians to organize a subordinate structure they were tolerated as long as they didn’t come outside their perimeter.”
Police in several cities fanned out in the night with arrest warrants for 27 people. At least 17 were apprehended, authorities said, including the alleged head of the organization and the so-called Defence Minister who is accused of issuing the orders for brutal punishment. Authorities named FestusPedro Erhonmosele and Kenneth Osahon Aghaku amon...

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 2

This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against hum...

This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

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Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 1

Summit9-10November 2017
This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ traffi...

Summit9-10November 2017
This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

Summit9-10November 2017
This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

Anti-corruption officials have detained a chief Romanian prosecutor for questioning.
AlinaBica heads a government department investigating mafia,organized crime and terrorism.
She is accused of abusing a previous role on a ministry of justice committee by approving a government payment that was overvalued by 60 million euros.
The case is part of an investigation that so far extends to two of Bica's former colleagues as well as at least one businessman and an ethnic Hungarian MP.
Romania's n…
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Anti-corruption officials have detained a chief Romanian prosecutor for questioning.
AlinaBica heads a government department investigating mafia,organized crime and terrorism.
She is accused of abusing a previous role on a ministry of justice committee by approving a government payment that was overvalued by 60 million euros.
The case is part of an investigation that so far extends to two of Bica's former colleagues as well as at least one businessman and an ethnic Hungarian MP.
Romania's n…
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The alleged owner of a chain of medical marijuana clinics faces criminal charges in one of the first cases of its kind in the state. Prosecutors said it's a cri...

The alleged owner of a chain of medical marijuana clinics faces criminal charges in one of the first cases of its kind in the state. Prosecutors said it's a criminal enterprise, a prescription mill generating millions of dollars, with most of the money laundered and sent overseas. Juliette Goodrich reports. (2/11/15)

The alleged owner of a chain of medical marijuana clinics faces criminal charges in one of the first cases of its kind in the state. Prosecutors said it's a criminal enterprise, a prescription mill generating millions of dollars, with most of the money laundered and sent overseas. Juliette Goodrich reports. (2/11/15)

Crimea’s chief prosecutor, who also happens to be an Internet meme and a cult cartoon icon, sees the peninsular clearer of crime than it had been before the ref...

Crimea’s chief prosecutor, who also happens to be an Internet meme and a cult cartoon icon, sees the peninsular clearer of crime than it had been before the referendum on joining Russia.
“We've achieved many positive results over the last two years since our reunification with Russia, results we didn’t see while it had been a part of Ukraine,” she said.
“Only now we managed to put forward charges against some of them, like Aleksandr Danilchenko and NikolayKozhukhar (leaders of the Bashmaki gang), who are in pretrial detention in Simpheropol. Andrey Laptev is already serving his sentence,” Poklonskaya said.
Channel "RT TV"
https://www.rt.com/news/335852-poklonskaya-crimea-prosecutor-popular/

Crimea’s chief prosecutor, who also happens to be an Internet meme and a cult cartoon icon, sees the peninsular clearer of crime than it had been before the referendum on joining Russia.
“We've achieved many positive results over the last two years since our reunification with Russia, results we didn’t see while it had been a part of Ukraine,” she said.
“Only now we managed to put forward charges against some of them, like Aleksandr Danilchenko and NikolayKozhukhar (leaders of the Bashmaki gang), who are in pretrial detention in Simpheropol. Andrey Laptev is already serving his sentence,” Poklonskaya said.
Channel "RT TV"
https://www.rt.com/news/335852-poklonskaya-crimea-prosecutor-popular/

Texas DAs Murdered By Organized Crime (the Aryan Brotherhood?...)

Criminal Minds writer and retired FBI agent, Jim Clemente discusses the circumstances that accompany the recent murders of several members of the district attor...

Criminal Minds writer and retired FBI agent, Jim Clemente discusses the circumstances that accompany the recent murders of several members of the district attorney's office in Texas, and the level of sophistication that imply that the criminals were organized.
Watch the full Crime Time with Jim Clemente discussing the Texas DA murders and more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Z490udFDc

Criminal Minds writer and retired FBI agent, Jim Clemente discusses the circumstances that accompany the recent murders of several members of the district attorney's office in Texas, and the level of sophistication that imply that the criminals were organized.
Watch the full Crime Time with Jim Clemente discussing the Texas DA murders and more:
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How the US government is using blockchain to fight fraud | Kathryn Haun | TEDxSanFrancisco

Kathryn is sharing about the first case of the US government using blockchain to fight fraud. She is sharing about how they could shut down the silk road and e...

Kathryn is sharing about the first case of the US government using blockchain to fight fraud. She is sharing about how they could shut down the silk road and even indicted federal agents in the process.
Based in San Francisco, Kathryn Haun is a federal prosecutor with the U.S.Department of Justice and is its first-ever coordinator for emerging financial technologies. Since 2006, she has served as an AssistantU.S. Attorney, first in the Washington D.C. area and later in San Francisco, California. She has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of violations of federal criminal law in U.S. courts, with a focus on organized crime syndicates, cybercrime, the Dark Net, and fraud. In addition to her role at the Justice Department, she teaches Stanford Law School’s first-ever course on Cybercrime and Digital Currency and is frequently called on by U.S. and international policymakers for her expertise in these areas.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Kathryn is sharing about the first case of the US government using blockchain to fight fraud. She is sharing about how they could shut down the silk road and even indicted federal agents in the process.
Based in San Francisco, Kathryn Haun is a federal prosecutor with the U.S.Department of Justice and is its first-ever coordinator for emerging financial technologies. Since 2006, she has served as an AssistantU.S. Attorney, first in the Washington D.C. area and later in San Francisco, California. She has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of violations of federal criminal law in U.S. courts, with a focus on organized crime syndicates, cybercrime, the Dark Net, and fraud. In addition to her role at the Justice Department, she teaches Stanford Law School’s first-ever course on Cybercrime and Digital Currency and is frequently called on by U.S. and international policymakers for her expertise in these areas.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

(12 Apr 2012) 1. Close up shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressionist Paul Cezanne
2. Medium shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressionist Paul Cezanne on a easel guarded by two hooded and armed special unit policemen
3. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Ivica Dacic, Serbian Interior Minister:
"In a joint operation with Swiss colleagues, in an action that took place over the last two days, four people were arrested, from whom this painting was confiscated. We also confiscated around 1.5 million euros, around 60 thousand swiss francs, four vehicles, five guns, etcetera."
4. Wide shot of Interior Minister Dacic at press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Miljko Radisavljevic, Serbia's Organised Crimes Prosecutor:
"The Boy in the Red Vest by Paul Cezanne will be returned to its owner. Serbia's police and prosecution raised the criminal charges in Serbia against these people who committed criminal acts in Switzerland."
6. Wide shot of the police officials looking at the painting
STORYLINE:
A masterpiece by French impressionist Paul Cezanne, which was stolen from a private Swiss museum in 2008, has been recovered in Serbia, police said on Thursday.
During a news conference in the capital Belgrade, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic described the operation.
"In a joint operation with Swiss colleagues, in an action that took place over the last two days, four people were arrested, from whom this painting was confiscated," he said, and money, weapons and vehicles were also seized.
The officials played a video showing how police had arrested one of the four suspects in a Belgrade suburb and found the painting in the roof upholstery of a black van, handcuffed the driver and dragged him away.
Dacic confirmed that the four, including the leader of the gang that conducted the robbery, were arrested in raids in the capital Belgrade and the central city of Cacak on Wednesday and Thursday.
Officials displayed "The Boy in the Red Vest" by the French impressionist, with two masked Serbian special policemen armed with machine guns standing alongside it.
A Swiss expert authenticated the oil on canvas painting, which was stolen from the E. G. Buhrle Collection in Zurich, along with three other masterpieces by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Edgar Degas.
Zurich prosecutors also said that the museum certified that the painting is the original by Cezanne.
The work was worth 100 millionSwiss francs (110 (m) million US dollars) when it was stolen by three masked gunmen who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, in what was one of the biggest art thefts in Europe.
Art experts have suggested the robbers took advantage of a low-security Swiss museum without knowing about the paintings or how difficult it can be to sell such well-known stolen art works.
Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said the police raids, planned since 2010, took place when the suspected robbers decided to take the painting to a wealthy Serb who agreed to buy it for 4.6 (m) million US dollars.
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(12 Apr 2012) 1. Close up shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressionist Paul Cezanne
2. Medium shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressionist Paul Cezanne on a easel guarded by two hooded and armed special unit policemen
3. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Ivica Dacic, Serbian Interior Minister:
"In a joint operation with Swiss colleagues, in an action that took place over the last two days, four people were arrested, from whom this painting was confiscated. We also confiscated around 1.5 million euros, around 60 thousand swiss francs, four vehicles, five guns, etcetera."
4. Wide shot of Interior Minister Dacic at press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Miljko Radisavljevic, Serbia's Organised Crimes Prosecutor:
"The Boy in the Red Vest by Paul Cezanne will be returned to its owner. Serbia's police and prosecution raised the criminal charges in Serbia against these people who committed criminal acts in Switzerland."
6. Wide shot of the police officials looking at the painting
STORYLINE:
A masterpiece by French impressionist Paul Cezanne, which was stolen from a private Swiss museum in 2008, has been recovered in Serbia, police said on Thursday.
During a news conference in the capital Belgrade, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic described the operation.
"In a joint operation with Swiss colleagues, in an action that took place over the last two days, four people were arrested, from whom this painting was confiscated," he said, and money, weapons and vehicles were also seized.
The officials played a video showing how police had arrested one of the four suspects in a Belgrade suburb and found the painting in the roof upholstery of a black van, handcuffed the driver and dragged him away.
Dacic confirmed that the four, including the leader of the gang that conducted the robbery, were arrested in raids in the capital Belgrade and the central city of Cacak on Wednesday and Thursday.
Officials displayed "The Boy in the Red Vest" by the French impressionist, with two masked Serbian special policemen armed with machine guns standing alongside it.
A Swiss expert authenticated the oil on canvas painting, which was stolen from the E. G. Buhrle Collection in Zurich, along with three other masterpieces by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Edgar Degas.
Zurich prosecutors also said that the museum certified that the painting is the original by Cezanne.
The work was worth 100 millionSwiss francs (110 (m) million US dollars) when it was stolen by three masked gunmen who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, in what was one of the biggest art thefts in Europe.
Art experts have suggested the robbers took advantage of a low-security Swiss museum without knowing about the paintings or how difficult it can be to sell such well-known stolen art works.
Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said the police raids, planned since 2010, took place when the suspected robbers decided to take the painting to a wealthy Serb who agreed to buy it for 4.6 (m) million US dollars.
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Cybercrime Is Likened To Organized Crime

Federal prosecutors are using mob-busting tactics to catch and disrupt online crooks, applying a law written to dismantle Mafia families to pursue loose affilia...

Federal prosecutors are using mob-busting tactics to catch and disrupt online crooks, applying a law written to dismantle Mafia families to pursue loose affiliations of thieves scattered around the world. The capacity of hackers and thieves to steal millions of dollars—in part through online marketplaces on which they can trade stolen credit-card numbers—is prompting concern among prosecutors.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/cybercrime-is-likened-to-organized-crime-1404841253?mod=rss_Technology
http://www.wochit.com

Federal prosecutors are using mob-busting tactics to catch and disrupt online crooks, applying a law written to dismantle Mafia families to pursue loose affiliations of thieves scattered around the world. The capacity of hackers and thieves to steal millions of dollars—in part through online marketplaces on which they can trade stolen credit-card numbers—is prompting concern among prosecutors.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/cybercrime-is-likened-to-organized-crime-1404841253?mod=rss_Technology
http://www.wochit.com

(1 Mar 2012)
1. Various of officials posing for group photo
2. Wide of Adam Blackwell, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary for Multidimensional Security approaching podium
3. Wide of Blackwell addressing crowd
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Adam Blackwell, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary for Multidimensional Security:
"The participation of criminal bands in the election process, threatening or even murdering candidates and in many cases imposing their own candidates, is another expression of the risks that organised crime pose to the preservation of our democratic institutions."
5. Wide of crowd
6. Mid of photographers
7. Wide of Antonio Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Mazzitelli, Head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America:
"Because of their (criminal gangs) capacity to create new markets, diversify their goods and services offering, overcome borders, develop alliances thanks to a series of networks always harder to detect and prosecute, we must step up our efforts."
9. Wide of Mazzitelli addressing crowd
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Mazzitelli, Head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America:
"I am sure that the terrible price all citizens of the hemisphere are paying, and the blood of so many public servants, police officers, prosecutors and judges and innocent victims won't be spilt in vain."
11. Mid of cameraman and sign language interpreter
12. Wide of Mazzitelli
STORYLINE:
Members of the Organisation of American States (OAS) met in Mexico City on Thursday, with organised crime in the region topping the agenda.
Mexico has expressed its concern about the possibility of criminal bands interfering in upcoming presidential elections after finding evidence that criminals sought to influence a recent election in the western state of Michoacan.
Adam Blackwell, OAS secretary for Multidimensional Security, said transnational organised crime threatened economic and democratic stability.
"The participation of criminal bands in the election process," said Blackwell, "is another expression of the risks that organised crime pose to the preservation of our democratic institutions."
Antonio Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America, said said the fight against organised crime needed to be stepped up and will serve to strengthen public institutions.
"I am sure that the terrible price all citizens of the hemisphere are paying, and the blood of so many public servants, police officers, prosecutors and judges and innocent victims won't be spilt in vain," said Mazzitelli.
The two-day meeting will gather prosecutors and attorney generals of the 34 active members to discuss solutions to fight transnational drug organisations.
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(1 Mar 2012)
1. Various of officials posing for group photo
2. Wide of Adam Blackwell, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary for Multidimensional Security approaching podium
3. Wide of Blackwell addressing crowd
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Adam Blackwell, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary for Multidimensional Security:
"The participation of criminal bands in the election process, threatening or even murdering candidates and in many cases imposing their own candidates, is another expression of the risks that organised crime pose to the preservation of our democratic institutions."
5. Wide of crowd
6. Mid of photographers
7. Wide of Antonio Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Mazzitelli, Head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America:
"Because of their (criminal gangs) capacity to create new markets, diversify their goods and services offering, overcome borders, develop alliances thanks to a series of networks always harder to detect and prosecute, we must step up our efforts."
9. Wide of Mazzitelli addressing crowd
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Mazzitelli, Head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America:
"I am sure that the terrible price all citizens of the hemisphere are paying, and the blood of so many public servants, police officers, prosecutors and judges and innocent victims won't be spilt in vain."
11. Mid of cameraman and sign language interpreter
12. Wide of Mazzitelli
STORYLINE:
Members of the Organisation of American States (OAS) met in Mexico City on Thursday, with organised crime in the region topping the agenda.
Mexico has expressed its concern about the possibility of criminal bands interfering in upcoming presidential elections after finding evidence that criminals sought to influence a recent election in the western state of Michoacan.
Adam Blackwell, OAS secretary for Multidimensional Security, said transnational organised crime threatened economic and democratic stability.
"The participation of criminal bands in the election process," said Blackwell, "is another expression of the risks that organised crime pose to the preservation of our democratic institutions."
Antonio Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America, said said the fight against organised crime needed to be stepped up and will serve to strengthen public institutions.
"I am sure that the terrible price all citizens of the hemisphere are paying, and the blood of so many public servants, police officers, prosecutors and judges and innocent victims won't be spilt in vain," said Mazzitelli.
The two-day meeting will gather prosecutors and attorney generals of the 34 active members to discuss solutions to fight transnational drug organisations.
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Federal prosecutors are charging dozens of reputed members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey

HEADLINE: Gambino crime family rounded up, charged
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CAPTION: Federal prosecutors are charging dozens of reputed members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey and New York with murders, drug trafficking, robberies and extortion. It's one of the largest mob takedowns in recent memory. (Feb. 8)
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[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
((FONT: New York))
After a massive roundup of alleged top mafia figures, is there a power vacuum in New York City's organized crime underworld?
The government says yes.
((FONT: BentonCampbell, US Attorney))
"I would say it does create a significant vacuum. START VO OF MOBSTERS It's a significant issue that organized crime will now have to address because many of their members are either in custody or facing federal charges."
The "bread and butter" of mafia income is sports betting, and experts say there will always be someone willing to muscle forward and take the kick-ups from those lucrative bets.
((FONT: Bruce Cutler, MafiaAttorney))
"Gambling is an obsession with this country, they even have it on television."
Thursday the government took into custody what it says is the top tier leadership of the Gambino family.
((show photo of D'Amico))
((1992))
Those include reputed boss, John D'Amico, a-k-a Jackie the Nose.
The feds say he runs the family's vast network of criminal enterprises, and has a penchant for gourmet food and gambling.
((show video of Cefalu in perp walk))
Alleged underboss and extortionist Domenico Cefalu, nicknamed "The Greaseball" is known for his old-school allegiance to the "omerta" code of mafia behavior, though he did time for heroin trafficking.
((show video of Carneglia in perp walk))
Accused Gambino soldier Charles Carneglia, called "Charlie Canig" by associates, is charged with five killings, including two men who had no connection to the mob.
((show video of Cali in perp walk))
The feds say Frank Cali, an alleged mafia captain, is the family's "bridge" to crime families in Sicily.
((show photo))
While Nicholas Corozzo, aka "Little Nick" is charged in connection with various construction project shakedowns across the city.
But mafia attorney Bruce Cutler, who has represented such notable mobsters as John Gotti, says racketeering cases are often difficult to prove.
"When you take away the labels, and the stripes, and the mafia, and the La Cosa Nostra and the blood oath, and all the Hollywood hype and the Sopranos business, where is the proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the client did or agreed to have something done on behalf of this enterprise?"
The government is proving it will aggressively prosecute the resurgent mafia.
((FONT: Thomas De Maria, NY Waterfront Commission))
"We will continue to be tenacious and ever vigilant to pursue and eradicate any criminal element that seeks to perpetrate evil in this great port and this great city."
In the meantime, it remains to be seen whether yet un named Gambino figures will step into the power gap, or those from other criminal organizations.
Ted Shaffrey, The Associated Press, New York
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HEADLINE: Gambino crime family rounded up, charged
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CAPTION: Federal prosecutors are charging dozens of reputed members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey and New York with murders, drug trafficking, robberies and extortion. It's one of the largest mob takedowns in recent memory. (Feb. 8)
---------------------------------------
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
((FONT: New York))
After a massive roundup of alleged top mafia figures, is there a power vacuum in New York City's organized crime underworld?
The government says yes.
((FONT: BentonCampbell, US Attorney))
"I would say it does create a significant vacuum. START VO OF MOBSTERS It's a significant issue that organized crime will now have to address because many of their members are either in custody or facing federal charges."
The "bread and butter" of mafia income is sports betting, and experts say there will always be someone willing to muscle forward and take the kick-ups from those lucrative bets.
((FONT: Bruce Cutler, MafiaAttorney))
"Gambling is an obsession with this country, they even have it on television."
Thursday the government took into custody what it says is the top tier leadership of the Gambino family.
((show photo of D'Amico))
((1992))
Those include reputed boss, John D'Amico, a-k-a Jackie the Nose.
The feds say he runs the family's vast network of criminal enterprises, and has a penchant for gourmet food and gambling.
((show video of Cefalu in perp walk))
Alleged underboss and extortionist Domenico Cefalu, nicknamed "The Greaseball" is known for his old-school allegiance to the "omerta" code of mafia behavior, though he did time for heroin trafficking.
((show video of Carneglia in perp walk))
Accused Gambino soldier Charles Carneglia, called "Charlie Canig" by associates, is charged with five killings, including two men who had no connection to the mob.
((show video of Cali in perp walk))
The feds say Frank Cali, an alleged mafia captain, is the family's "bridge" to crime families in Sicily.
((show photo))
While Nicholas Corozzo, aka "Little Nick" is charged in connection with various construction project shakedowns across the city.
But mafia attorney Bruce Cutler, who has represented such notable mobsters as John Gotti, says racketeering cases are often difficult to prove.
"When you take away the labels, and the stripes, and the mafia, and the La Cosa Nostra and the blood oath, and all the Hollywood hype and the Sopranos business, where is the proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the client did or agreed to have something done on behalf of this enterprise?"
The government is proving it will aggressively prosecute the resurgent mafia.
((FONT: Thomas De Maria, NY Waterfront Commission))
"We will continue to be tenacious and ever vigilant to pursue and eradicate any criminal element that seeks to perpetrate evil in this great port and this great city."
In the meantime, it remains to be seen whether yet un named Gambino figures will step into the power gap, or those from other criminal organizations.
Ted Shaffrey, The Associated Press, New York
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Retailers face new threat: Organized crime

Retailers face new threat: Organized crime
Get your girl a pepper spray gel! You never know when she could us
Organized theft has surpassed internal theft to ...

Retailers face new threat: Organized crime
Get your girl a pepper spray gel! You never know when she could us
Organized theft has surpassed internal theft to become the leading cause of retail loss, said RobertMoraca, vice president of loss prevention for the National Retail Federation. (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun video)
Lorraine MirabellaContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
They looked like any other shoppers browsing iPads and Apple Watches at the Apple Store in Towson.
But a security guard saw something amiss in the behavior of the four men in the store at Towson Town Center. Two of them — one wearing a blue jogging outfit, the other dressed in black pants and shirt — were acting as lookouts, blocking the views of sales associates. The other two were scooping up display items and slipping them into their vests. Then they all headed for the exit.
They didn’t get far. They were stopped by security guards, and police arrested three. The men, all from the Eastern European nation of Georgia, had driven down from New York in a minivan, police and prosecutors say. Inside, they say, officers found dozens of Apple devices.
The men were accused of stealing more than $1,500 worth of iPods and software. They were convicted last year of theft.
For retailers, simple shoplifting is an unavoidable cost of doing business. But now, industry analysts and law enforcement officials say, a greater threat is emerging: theft and fraud by highly organized criminal rings.
The high-stakes enterprises often operate across state lines. They might employ teams of “boosters” — often the homeless or the drug addicted — who go into stores to steal everything from laundry detergent and baby formula to designer clothes and diamonds. They fence stolen goods at pawn shops, kiosks, vans on the street and, increasingly, online auction sites.
And they’re becoming more brazen and more dangerous, analysts say, in some cases attacking store employees and even shoppers.
“We probably see organized retail crime incidents across our stores every day,” said Jim Cosseboom, manager of investigations and corporate asset protection for the supermarket operator Ahold USA, parent company of Giant, FoodLion and other chains.
“What they’re targeting is always shifting,” he says, from detergent to razor blades to seafood. But it’s anything “that can easily be sold for quick cash. …
“It’s a significant concern.”
Organized theft has surpassed internal theft to become the leading cause of retail loss, said Robert Moraca, vice president of loss prevention for the National Retail Federation. Analysts say the increase has been fueled by the opioid epidemic and by the growing understanding among criminals that theft can be quick, easy and profitable.
In a well choreographed assault, Moraca says, thieves can clear shelves of thousands of dollars’ worth of goods in minutes.
“And that’s happening in multiples,” he says. “It’s not just a group that gets together and wants to steal. These are groups that already exist for criminal purposes,” such as drug trafficking and human trafficking.
“These are hardened criminals, and they get into organized retail crime because it’s extremely profitable.”
Individual retailers contacted by The Sun were reluctant to discuss details. But the National Retail Federation reported that organized crime cost retailers $30 billion last year. The group recently surveyed retailers on organized crime; all of the respondents said they had been victimized in the previous year. They said they were spending an average of $545,000 on employees dedicated to fighting organized crime, an all-time high.
Coordinated efforts between retailers, store security, law enforcement and prosecutors have helped, analysts say, as has the emergence of associations focused on fighting organized retail crime. The Mid-Atlantic Organized Retail CrimeAlliance, which includes Maryland, brings together retailers, law enforcement, security and loss prevention officials to share data and intelligence on organized theft, robberies, counterfeiting, check and credit card fraud and other scams.
Thirty-four states have enacted laws against organized retail crime. Maryland has not. The Maryland Retailers Association wants legislation that would distinguish between organized retail theft and other types of theft.
“Being on the I-95 corridor, we are particularly susceptible to organized retail crime,” association President Cailey Locklair Tolle says. “Shoplifting in Maryland, both the instances of theft and the dollar amount that’s stolen every year, has steadily been on the rise, and part of it does have to do with organized retail crime.”
The group is concerned that the increase in the state threshold for felony theft from $1,000 to $1,500 last year will encourage more organized rings to operate in Maryland. The Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention looked at theft classifica

Retailers face new threat: Organized crime
Get your girl a pepper spray gel! You never know when she could us
Organized theft has surpassed internal theft to become the leading cause of retail loss, said RobertMoraca, vice president of loss prevention for the National Retail Federation. (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun video)
Lorraine MirabellaContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
They looked like any other shoppers browsing iPads and Apple Watches at the Apple Store in Towson.
But a security guard saw something amiss in the behavior of the four men in the store at Towson Town Center. Two of them — one wearing a blue jogging outfit, the other dressed in black pants and shirt — were acting as lookouts, blocking the views of sales associates. The other two were scooping up display items and slipping them into their vests. Then they all headed for the exit.
They didn’t get far. They were stopped by security guards, and police arrested three. The men, all from the Eastern European nation of Georgia, had driven down from New York in a minivan, police and prosecutors say. Inside, they say, officers found dozens of Apple devices.
The men were accused of stealing more than $1,500 worth of iPods and software. They were convicted last year of theft.
For retailers, simple shoplifting is an unavoidable cost of doing business. But now, industry analysts and law enforcement officials say, a greater threat is emerging: theft and fraud by highly organized criminal rings.
The high-stakes enterprises often operate across state lines. They might employ teams of “boosters” — often the homeless or the drug addicted — who go into stores to steal everything from laundry detergent and baby formula to designer clothes and diamonds. They fence stolen goods at pawn shops, kiosks, vans on the street and, increasingly, online auction sites.
And they’re becoming more brazen and more dangerous, analysts say, in some cases attacking store employees and even shoppers.
“We probably see organized retail crime incidents across our stores every day,” said Jim Cosseboom, manager of investigations and corporate asset protection for the supermarket operator Ahold USA, parent company of Giant, FoodLion and other chains.
“What they’re targeting is always shifting,” he says, from detergent to razor blades to seafood. But it’s anything “that can easily be sold for quick cash. …
“It’s a significant concern.”
Organized theft has surpassed internal theft to become the leading cause of retail loss, said Robert Moraca, vice president of loss prevention for the National Retail Federation. Analysts say the increase has been fueled by the opioid epidemic and by the growing understanding among criminals that theft can be quick, easy and profitable.
In a well choreographed assault, Moraca says, thieves can clear shelves of thousands of dollars’ worth of goods in minutes.
“And that’s happening in multiples,” he says. “It’s not just a group that gets together and wants to steal. These are groups that already exist for criminal purposes,” such as drug trafficking and human trafficking.
“These are hardened criminals, and they get into organized retail crime because it’s extremely profitable.”
Individual retailers contacted by The Sun were reluctant to discuss details. But the National Retail Federation reported that organized crime cost retailers $30 billion last year. The group recently surveyed retailers on organized crime; all of the respondents said they had been victimized in the previous year. They said they were spending an average of $545,000 on employees dedicated to fighting organized crime, an all-time high.
Coordinated efforts between retailers, store security, law enforcement and prosecutors have helped, analysts say, as has the emergence of associations focused on fighting organized retail crime. The Mid-Atlantic Organized Retail CrimeAlliance, which includes Maryland, brings together retailers, law enforcement, security and loss prevention officials to share data and intelligence on organized theft, robberies, counterfeiting, check and credit card fraud and other scams.
Thirty-four states have enacted laws against organized retail crime. Maryland has not. The Maryland Retailers Association wants legislation that would distinguish between organized retail theft and other types of theft.
“Being on the I-95 corridor, we are particularly susceptible to organized retail crime,” association President Cailey Locklair Tolle says. “Shoplifting in Maryland, both the instances of theft and the dollar amount that’s stolen every year, has steadily been on the rise, and part of it does have to do with organized retail crime.”
The group is concerned that the increase in the state threshold for felony theft from $1,000 to $1,500 last year will encourage more organized rings to operate in Maryland. The Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention looked at theft classifica

A number of allegations have been written about and several local, state, and federal investigations have taken place related to the notion of the Mena Airport...

A number of allegations have been written about and several local, state, and federal investigations have taken place related to the notion of the Mena Airport as a CIA drop point in large scale cocaine trafficking beginning in the latter part of the 1980s. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805028048/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805028048&linkCode=as2&tag=tra0c7-20&linkId=c13ed0962050eee3b1d55b9a187dfe42
The topic has received some press coverage that has included allegations of awareness, participation and/or coverup involvement of figures such as future presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W.Bush, and George W. Bush, as well future Florida GovernorJeb Bush and Saline County prosecutor Dan Harmon (who was convicted of numerous felonies including drug and racketeering charges in 1997). The Mena airport was also associated with Adler Berriman (Barry) Seal, an American drug smuggler and aircraft pilot who flew covert flights for the CIA and the Medellín Cartel.
A criminal investigator from the Arkansas State Police, Russell Welch, who was assigned to investigate Mena airport claimed that he opened a letter which released electrostatically charged Anthrax spores in his face, and that he had his life saved after a prompt diagnosis by a doctor. He also claimed that later, his doctor's office was vandalized, robbed, and test results and correspondence with the CDC in Atlanta were stolen.
An investigation by the CIA's inspector general concluded that the CIA had no involvement in or knowledge of any illegal activities that may have occurred in Mena. The report said that the agency had conducted a training exercise at the airport in partnership with another Federal agency and that companies located at the airport had performed "routine aviation-related services on equipment owned by the CIA".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
The Whitewater controversy (also called the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.
A New York Times article written in March 1992, during the 1992U.S. presidential campaign, reported that the Clintons had invested and lost money in the Whitewater development project.[1] The article stimulated the interest of L. Jean Lewis, a Resolution Trust Corporation investigator who was looking into the failure of Madison GuarantySavings and Loan, owned by McDougal. She looked for connections between the savings and loan company and the Clintons, and on September 2, 1992, she submitted a criminal referral to the FBI naming Bill and Hillary Clinton as witnesses in the Madison Guaranty case. Little RockU.S. AttorneyCharles A. Banks and the FBI determined that the referral lacked merit, but she continued to pursue it. Between 1992 and 1994 she issued several additional referrals against the Clintons and repeatedly called the U.S. Attorney's Office in Little Rock and the Justice Department about the case.[2] Her referrals eventually became public knowledge, and she testified before the Senate Whitewater Committee in 1994.
David Hale, the source of criminal allegations against President Clinton in the Whitewater affair, claimed in November 1993 that Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, pressured him to provide an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, the partner of the Clintons in the Whitewater land deal.[3] Clinton supporters regarded Hale's allegations as questionable, as Hale had not mentioned Clinton in reference to this loan during the original FBI investigation of Madison Guaranty in 1989. Only after coming under indictment for this in 1993 did Hale make allegations against the Clintons.[4]
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation did result in convictions against the McDougals for their role in the Whitewater project, but the Clintons themselves were never prosecuted, as three separate inquiries found insufficient evidence linking them with the criminal conduct of others related to the land deal.[5] Bill Clinton's successor as Arkansas Governor, Jim Guy Tucker, was also convicted and served time in prison for his role in the fraud. Susan McDougal later served 18 months in prison for contempt of court for refusing to answer any questions relating to Whitewater, and was later granted a pardon by President Clinton just before leaving office.
The term Whitewater is also sometimes used to include other controversies from the Bill Clinton administration, especially those such as Travelgate, Filegate, and the circumstances surrounding Vince Foster's death, that were investigated by the Whitewater Independent Counsel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy

A number of allegations have been written about and several local, state, and federal investigations have taken place related to the notion of the Mena Airport as a CIA drop point in large scale cocaine trafficking beginning in the latter part of the 1980s. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805028048/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805028048&linkCode=as2&tag=tra0c7-20&linkId=c13ed0962050eee3b1d55b9a187dfe42
The topic has received some press coverage that has included allegations of awareness, participation and/or coverup involvement of figures such as future presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W.Bush, and George W. Bush, as well future Florida GovernorJeb Bush and Saline County prosecutor Dan Harmon (who was convicted of numerous felonies including drug and racketeering charges in 1997). The Mena airport was also associated with Adler Berriman (Barry) Seal, an American drug smuggler and aircraft pilot who flew covert flights for the CIA and the Medellín Cartel.
A criminal investigator from the Arkansas State Police, Russell Welch, who was assigned to investigate Mena airport claimed that he opened a letter which released electrostatically charged Anthrax spores in his face, and that he had his life saved after a prompt diagnosis by a doctor. He also claimed that later, his doctor's office was vandalized, robbed, and test results and correspondence with the CDC in Atlanta were stolen.
An investigation by the CIA's inspector general concluded that the CIA had no involvement in or knowledge of any illegal activities that may have occurred in Mena. The report said that the agency had conducted a training exercise at the airport in partnership with another Federal agency and that companies located at the airport had performed "routine aviation-related services on equipment owned by the CIA".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
The Whitewater controversy (also called the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.
A New York Times article written in March 1992, during the 1992U.S. presidential campaign, reported that the Clintons had invested and lost money in the Whitewater development project.[1] The article stimulated the interest of L. Jean Lewis, a Resolution Trust Corporation investigator who was looking into the failure of Madison GuarantySavings and Loan, owned by McDougal. She looked for connections between the savings and loan company and the Clintons, and on September 2, 1992, she submitted a criminal referral to the FBI naming Bill and Hillary Clinton as witnesses in the Madison Guaranty case. Little RockU.S. AttorneyCharles A. Banks and the FBI determined that the referral lacked merit, but she continued to pursue it. Between 1992 and 1994 she issued several additional referrals against the Clintons and repeatedly called the U.S. Attorney's Office in Little Rock and the Justice Department about the case.[2] Her referrals eventually became public knowledge, and she testified before the Senate Whitewater Committee in 1994.
David Hale, the source of criminal allegations against President Clinton in the Whitewater affair, claimed in November 1993 that Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, pressured him to provide an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, the partner of the Clintons in the Whitewater land deal.[3] Clinton supporters regarded Hale's allegations as questionable, as Hale had not mentioned Clinton in reference to this loan during the original FBI investigation of Madison Guaranty in 1989. Only after coming under indictment for this in 1993 did Hale make allegations against the Clintons.[4]
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation did result in convictions against the McDougals for their role in the Whitewater project, but the Clintons themselves were never prosecuted, as three separate inquiries found insufficient evidence linking them with the criminal conduct of others related to the land deal.[5] Bill Clinton's successor as Arkansas Governor, Jim Guy Tucker, was also convicted and served time in prison for his role in the fraud. Susan McDougal later served 18 months in prison for contempt of court for refusing to answer any questions relating to Whitewater, and was later granted a pardon by President Clinton just before leaving office.
The term Whitewater is also sometimes used to include other controversies from the Bill Clinton administration, especially those such as Travelgate, Filegate, and the circumstances surrounding Vince Foster's death, that were investigated by the Whitewater Independent Counsel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy

James JosephWhitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston. Federal prosecutors indicted Bulger for 19 .

James JosephWhitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston. Federal prosecutors indicted Bulger for 19 .

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MILAN – Italys new national antimafia and antiterrorism prosecutor says that Italian organized crime gangs are cooperating to control international drug trafficking. Prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho told an antimafia conference in Milan on Thursday that the Italian mafias are not isolated. By now, they move together. The ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra, Cammora, also the groups from Puglia work together, coordinating, for example, ports they use for heroin and cocaine shipments. Cafiero De Raho urged Italian law enforcement and magistrates to cooperate on exchanging data and other information, saying it was the first step in the strategy to defeat organized crime. Italys justice minister, Andrea Orlando, said the mafia is a blemish on our competitiveness, and said organized crime must be combatted throughout the country not just in the south.

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MILAN – Italys new national antimafia and antiterrorism prosecutor says that Italian organized crime gangs are cooperating to control international drug trafficking. Prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho told an antimafia conference in Milan on Thursday that the Italian mafias are not isolated. By now, they move together. The ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra, Cammora, also the groups from Puglia work together, coordinating, for example, ports they use for heroin and cocaine shipments. Cafiero De Raho urged Italian law enforcement and magistrates to cooperate on exchanging data and other information, saying it was the first step in the strategy to defeat organized crime. Italys justice minister, Andrea Orlando, said the mafia is a blemish on our competitiveness, and said organized crime must be combatted throughout the country not just in the south.

Palermo, Sicily — Police in the birthplace of the traditional Mafia moved against a new organized crime threat: “The Black Axe,” a Nigerian crime syndicate that has spread internationally.
Leonardo Agueci, deputy anti-Mafia prosecutor in Palermo, said: “Cosa Nostra tolerates the Nigerian mafia in Palermo. Cosa Nostra allowed the Nigerians to organize a subordinate structure they were tolerated as long as they didn’t come outside their perimeter.”
Police in several cities fanned out in the night with arrest warrants for 27 people. At least 17 were apprehended, authorities said, including the alleged head of the organization and the so-called Defence Minister who is accused of issuing the orders for brutal punishment. Authorities named FestusPedro Erhonmosele and Kenneth Osahon Aghaku among its alleged leaders. Authorities say the suspects ran, directly or indirectly, the management and control of illegal economic activities in certain areas: including debt collection, prostitution and drug trafficking.
The inside operations and its structure were revealed by an informant who was charged this summer and during his plea bargaining revealed his knowledge of the secretive criminal network, including the names of its senior members, authorities said. The Black Axe are reported to be a splinter group of Nigeria’s “Neo-Black Movement of Africa.”
For more information, visit www.adrianhumphreys.com.
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Palermo, Sicily — Police in the birthplace of the traditional Mafia moved against a new organized crime threat: “The Black Axe,” a Nigerian crime syndicate that has spread internationally.
Leonardo Agueci, deputy anti-Mafia prosecutor in Palermo, said: “Cosa Nostra tolerates the Nigerian mafia in Palermo. Cosa Nostra allowed the Nigerians to organize a subordinate structure they were tolerated as long as they didn’t come outside their perimeter.”
Police in several cities fanned out in the night with arrest warrants for 27 people. At least 17 were apprehended, authorities said, including the alleged head of the organization and the so-called Defence Minister who is accused of issuing the orders for brutal punishment. Authorities named FestusPedro Erhonmosele and Kenneth Osahon Aghaku among its alleged leaders. Authorities say the suspects ran, directly or indirectly, the management and control of illegal economic activities in certain areas: including debt collection, prostitution and drug trafficking.
The inside operations and its structure were revealed by an informant who was charged this summer and during his plea bargaining revealed his knowledge of the secretive criminal network, including the names of its senior members, authorities said. The Black Axe are reported to be a splinter group of Nigeria’s “Neo-Black Movement of Africa.”
For more information, visit www.adrianhumphreys.com.
To read my exposés in the National Post, visit: http://news.nationalpost.com/author/ahumphreys/
As always, please like, share, comment and subscribe.
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Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 2

This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination o...

published: 10 Nov 2017

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 1

A number of allegations have been written about and several local, state, and federal investigations have taken place related to the notion of the Mena Airport as a CIA drop point in large scale cocaine trafficking beginning in the latter part of the 1980s. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805028048/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805028048&linkCode=as2&tag=tra0c7-20&linkId=c13ed0962050eee3b1d55b9a187dfe42
The topic has received some press coverage that has included allegations of awareness, participation and/or coverup involvement of figures such as future presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W.Bush, and George W. Bush, as well future Florida GovernorJeb Bush and Saline County prosecutor Dan Harmon (who was convicted of numerous felonies inclu...

published: 25 May 2014

How the US government is using blockchain to fight fraud | Kathryn Haun | TEDxSanFrancisco

Inside the American Mob - End game

Documentary film about the Italian Mafia and their organized crime activities in USA, mainly New York, between the '60's to mid '90's. Well documented with plenty of interviews and original footage. Story told by ex-members of Mafia, FBI agents and prosecutors at that time, cops and journalists. It explains how they functioned, the rule of silence called Omerta, which five families ruled New York and how; and also how the FBI and US government managed to dismantle them after 30 years of the crime syndicate being untouchable. Listen to what Rudy Giuliani, Joseph D. Pistone aka 'Donnie Brasko' and many others had to say about it.

published: 18 Aug 2017

James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. organized crime boss

James JosephWhitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston. Federal prosecutors indicted Bulger for 19 .

Salvatore Totò Riina Lords of the Mafia Mafia Documentary

Salvatore Totò Riina (born 16 1930) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia who became the most powerful member of the criminal organization in the early 1980s. Fellow mobsters nicknamed.
Full Documentary.
Sicilian judge Antonino Di Matteo is one of the most threatened - and protected - men in Italy. As the chief prosecutor in Italys trial of the century, he has more than 20 bodyguards, ensuring.
A in-depth history of Sicilian Mafia vesves Organized Crime from its origins in Palermo Sicily to it international reach into the rest of the world. Even murdering the champion of Anti-Mafia efforts..

published: 04 Jan 2018

Superfly The Untold Story of Frank Lucas

This documentary focuses on legendary American gangsterFrank Lucas, a Harlem drug dealer whose criminal empire eventually made him one of the most powerful figures in American organized crime. Through interviews with Lucas' own friends, colleagues and prosecutors, the film examines not only his career but also his controversial turn towards becoming a police informant

published: 06 Nov 2017

A Very Sicilian Justice: Taking on the Mafia - Featured Documentary

Sicilian judge Antonino Di Matteo is one of the most threatened - and protected - men in Italy. As the chief prosecutor in Italy's "trial of the century", he has more than 20 bodyguards, ensuring his safety around the clock. On trial are 10 men who stand accused of being part of a conspiracy between the mafia and the state. Five of the defendants are mafia bosses and five are members of the political establishment, including senior police chiefs and politicians. Central to Di Matteo's case is the story of Italy's most famous anti-mafia judges, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. During the 1980s they prosecuted hundreds of Cosa Nostra members in what was known as the Maxi Trial, the largest mafia court case in history. Four-hundred-and-seventy-five mafiosi were brought to court and 346 ...

Joey Cantalupo Interview | FBI Informant | 1984 | HD

Joey Cantalupo Interview | FBI Informant | 1984 | HD
Joey Cantalupo being interviewed by Martin Short for the Crime Inc. documentary in 1984 (excerpts cut to make full interview)
Joseph "Joey" Cantalupo was an American Mafia associate from the Colombo Crime Family and later for being government informant. Cantalupo turned informant in 1972 and was a considerable asset to the FBI in prosecuting mafia trials. He has testified in court, written a book on his activities in organized crime and also appeared in mafia related documentaries as an authority on mafia life.
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Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 2

This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against hum...

This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

published:10 Nov 2017

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Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 1

Summit9-10November 2017
This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ traffi...

Summit9-10November 2017
This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

Summit9-10November 2017
This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

published:09 Nov 2017

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Gregor McGill, Head of Organised Crime Division, Crown Prosecution Service

A number of allegations have been written about and several local, state, and federal investigations have taken place related to the notion of the Mena Airport...

A number of allegations have been written about and several local, state, and federal investigations have taken place related to the notion of the Mena Airport as a CIA drop point in large scale cocaine trafficking beginning in the latter part of the 1980s. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805028048/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805028048&linkCode=as2&tag=tra0c7-20&linkId=c13ed0962050eee3b1d55b9a187dfe42
The topic has received some press coverage that has included allegations of awareness, participation and/or coverup involvement of figures such as future presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W.Bush, and George W. Bush, as well future Florida GovernorJeb Bush and Saline County prosecutor Dan Harmon (who was convicted of numerous felonies including drug and racketeering charges in 1997). The Mena airport was also associated with Adler Berriman (Barry) Seal, an American drug smuggler and aircraft pilot who flew covert flights for the CIA and the Medellín Cartel.
A criminal investigator from the Arkansas State Police, Russell Welch, who was assigned to investigate Mena airport claimed that he opened a letter which released electrostatically charged Anthrax spores in his face, and that he had his life saved after a prompt diagnosis by a doctor. He also claimed that later, his doctor's office was vandalized, robbed, and test results and correspondence with the CDC in Atlanta were stolen.
An investigation by the CIA's inspector general concluded that the CIA had no involvement in or knowledge of any illegal activities that may have occurred in Mena. The report said that the agency had conducted a training exercise at the airport in partnership with another Federal agency and that companies located at the airport had performed "routine aviation-related services on equipment owned by the CIA".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
The Whitewater controversy (also called the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.
A New York Times article written in March 1992, during the 1992U.S. presidential campaign, reported that the Clintons had invested and lost money in the Whitewater development project.[1] The article stimulated the interest of L. Jean Lewis, a Resolution Trust Corporation investigator who was looking into the failure of Madison GuarantySavings and Loan, owned by McDougal. She looked for connections between the savings and loan company and the Clintons, and on September 2, 1992, she submitted a criminal referral to the FBI naming Bill and Hillary Clinton as witnesses in the Madison Guaranty case. Little RockU.S. AttorneyCharles A. Banks and the FBI determined that the referral lacked merit, but she continued to pursue it. Between 1992 and 1994 she issued several additional referrals against the Clintons and repeatedly called the U.S. Attorney's Office in Little Rock and the Justice Department about the case.[2] Her referrals eventually became public knowledge, and she testified before the Senate Whitewater Committee in 1994.
David Hale, the source of criminal allegations against President Clinton in the Whitewater affair, claimed in November 1993 that Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, pressured him to provide an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, the partner of the Clintons in the Whitewater land deal.[3] Clinton supporters regarded Hale's allegations as questionable, as Hale had not mentioned Clinton in reference to this loan during the original FBI investigation of Madison Guaranty in 1989. Only after coming under indictment for this in 1993 did Hale make allegations against the Clintons.[4]
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation did result in convictions against the McDougals for their role in the Whitewater project, but the Clintons themselves were never prosecuted, as three separate inquiries found insufficient evidence linking them with the criminal conduct of others related to the land deal.[5] Bill Clinton's successor as Arkansas Governor, Jim Guy Tucker, was also convicted and served time in prison for his role in the fraud. Susan McDougal later served 18 months in prison for contempt of court for refusing to answer any questions relating to Whitewater, and was later granted a pardon by President Clinton just before leaving office.
The term Whitewater is also sometimes used to include other controversies from the Bill Clinton administration, especially those such as Travelgate, Filegate, and the circumstances surrounding Vince Foster's death, that were investigated by the Whitewater Independent Counsel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy

A number of allegations have been written about and several local, state, and federal investigations have taken place related to the notion of the Mena Airport as a CIA drop point in large scale cocaine trafficking beginning in the latter part of the 1980s. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805028048/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805028048&linkCode=as2&tag=tra0c7-20&linkId=c13ed0962050eee3b1d55b9a187dfe42
The topic has received some press coverage that has included allegations of awareness, participation and/or coverup involvement of figures such as future presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W.Bush, and George W. Bush, as well future Florida GovernorJeb Bush and Saline County prosecutor Dan Harmon (who was convicted of numerous felonies including drug and racketeering charges in 1997). The Mena airport was also associated with Adler Berriman (Barry) Seal, an American drug smuggler and aircraft pilot who flew covert flights for the CIA and the Medellín Cartel.
A criminal investigator from the Arkansas State Police, Russell Welch, who was assigned to investigate Mena airport claimed that he opened a letter which released electrostatically charged Anthrax spores in his face, and that he had his life saved after a prompt diagnosis by a doctor. He also claimed that later, his doctor's office was vandalized, robbed, and test results and correspondence with the CDC in Atlanta were stolen.
An investigation by the CIA's inspector general concluded that the CIA had no involvement in or knowledge of any illegal activities that may have occurred in Mena. The report said that the agency had conducted a training exercise at the airport in partnership with another Federal agency and that companies located at the airport had performed "routine aviation-related services on equipment owned by the CIA".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
The Whitewater controversy (also called the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.
A New York Times article written in March 1992, during the 1992U.S. presidential campaign, reported that the Clintons had invested and lost money in the Whitewater development project.[1] The article stimulated the interest of L. Jean Lewis, a Resolution Trust Corporation investigator who was looking into the failure of Madison GuarantySavings and Loan, owned by McDougal. She looked for connections between the savings and loan company and the Clintons, and on September 2, 1992, she submitted a criminal referral to the FBI naming Bill and Hillary Clinton as witnesses in the Madison Guaranty case. Little RockU.S. AttorneyCharles A. Banks and the FBI determined that the referral lacked merit, but she continued to pursue it. Between 1992 and 1994 she issued several additional referrals against the Clintons and repeatedly called the U.S. Attorney's Office in Little Rock and the Justice Department about the case.[2] Her referrals eventually became public knowledge, and she testified before the Senate Whitewater Committee in 1994.
David Hale, the source of criminal allegations against President Clinton in the Whitewater affair, claimed in November 1993 that Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, pressured him to provide an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, the partner of the Clintons in the Whitewater land deal.[3] Clinton supporters regarded Hale's allegations as questionable, as Hale had not mentioned Clinton in reference to this loan during the original FBI investigation of Madison Guaranty in 1989. Only after coming under indictment for this in 1993 did Hale make allegations against the Clintons.[4]
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation did result in convictions against the McDougals for their role in the Whitewater project, but the Clintons themselves were never prosecuted, as three separate inquiries found insufficient evidence linking them with the criminal conduct of others related to the land deal.[5] Bill Clinton's successor as Arkansas Governor, Jim Guy Tucker, was also convicted and served time in prison for his role in the fraud. Susan McDougal later served 18 months in prison for contempt of court for refusing to answer any questions relating to Whitewater, and was later granted a pardon by President Clinton just before leaving office.
The term Whitewater is also sometimes used to include other controversies from the Bill Clinton administration, especially those such as Travelgate, Filegate, and the circumstances surrounding Vince Foster's death, that were investigated by the Whitewater Independent Counsel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy

published:25 May 2014

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How the US government is using blockchain to fight fraud | Kathryn Haun | TEDxSanFrancisco

Kathryn is sharing about the first case of the US government using blockchain to fight fraud. She is sharing about how they could shut down the silk road and e...

Kathryn is sharing about the first case of the US government using blockchain to fight fraud. She is sharing about how they could shut down the silk road and even indicted federal agents in the process.
Based in San Francisco, Kathryn Haun is a federal prosecutor with the U.S.Department of Justice and is its first-ever coordinator for emerging financial technologies. Since 2006, she has served as an AssistantU.S. Attorney, first in the Washington D.C. area and later in San Francisco, California. She has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of violations of federal criminal law in U.S. courts, with a focus on organized crime syndicates, cybercrime, the Dark Net, and fraud. In addition to her role at the Justice Department, she teaches Stanford Law School’s first-ever course on Cybercrime and Digital Currency and is frequently called on by U.S. and international policymakers for her expertise in these areas.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Kathryn is sharing about the first case of the US government using blockchain to fight fraud. She is sharing about how they could shut down the silk road and even indicted federal agents in the process.
Based in San Francisco, Kathryn Haun is a federal prosecutor with the U.S.Department of Justice and is its first-ever coordinator for emerging financial technologies. Since 2006, she has served as an AssistantU.S. Attorney, first in the Washington D.C. area and later in San Francisco, California. She has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of violations of federal criminal law in U.S. courts, with a focus on organized crime syndicates, cybercrime, the Dark Net, and fraud. In addition to her role at the Justice Department, she teaches Stanford Law School’s first-ever course on Cybercrime and Digital Currency and is frequently called on by U.S. and international policymakers for her expertise in these areas.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Documentary film about the Italian Mafia and their organized crime activities in USA, mainly New York, between the '60's to mid '90's. Well documented with plenty of interviews and original footage. Story told by ex-members of Mafia, FBI agents and prosecutors at that time, cops and journalists. It explains how they functioned, the rule of silence called Omerta, which five families ruled New York and how; and also how the FBI and US government managed to dismantle them after 30 years of the crime syndicate being untouchable. Listen to what Rudy Giuliani, Joseph D. Pistone aka 'Donnie Brasko' and many others had to say about it.

Documentary film about the Italian Mafia and their organized crime activities in USA, mainly New York, between the '60's to mid '90's. Well documented with plenty of interviews and original footage. Story told by ex-members of Mafia, FBI agents and prosecutors at that time, cops and journalists. It explains how they functioned, the rule of silence called Omerta, which five families ruled New York and how; and also how the FBI and US government managed to dismantle them after 30 years of the crime syndicate being untouchable. Listen to what Rudy Giuliani, Joseph D. Pistone aka 'Donnie Brasko' and many others had to say about it.

James JosephWhitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston. Federal prosecutors indicted Bulger for 19 .

James JosephWhitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston. Federal prosecutors indicted Bulger for 19 .

Salvatore Totò Riina (born 16 1930) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia who became the most powerful member of the criminal organization in the early 1980s. Fellow mobsters nicknamed.
Full Documentary.
Sicilian judge Antonino Di Matteo is one of the most threatened - and protected - men in Italy. As the chief prosecutor in Italys trial of the century, he has more than 20 bodyguards, ensuring.
A in-depth history of Sicilian Mafia vesves Organized Crime from its origins in Palermo Sicily to it international reach into the rest of the world. Even murdering the champion of Anti-Mafia efforts..

Salvatore Totò Riina (born 16 1930) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia who became the most powerful member of the criminal organization in the early 1980s. Fellow mobsters nicknamed.
Full Documentary.
Sicilian judge Antonino Di Matteo is one of the most threatened - and protected - men in Italy. As the chief prosecutor in Italys trial of the century, he has more than 20 bodyguards, ensuring.
A in-depth history of Sicilian Mafia vesves Organized Crime from its origins in Palermo Sicily to it international reach into the rest of the world. Even murdering the champion of Anti-Mafia efforts..

This documentary focuses on legendary American gangsterFrank Lucas, a Harlem drug dealer whose criminal empire eventually made him one of the most powerful figures in American organized crime. Through interviews with Lucas' own friends, colleagues and prosecutors, the film examines not only his career but also his controversial turn towards becoming a police informant

This documentary focuses on legendary American gangsterFrank Lucas, a Harlem drug dealer whose criminal empire eventually made him one of the most powerful figures in American organized crime. Through interviews with Lucas' own friends, colleagues and prosecutors, the film examines not only his career but also his controversial turn towards becoming a police informant

A Very Sicilian Justice: Taking on the Mafia - Featured Documentary

Sicilian judge Antonino Di Matteo is one of the most threatened - and protected - men in Italy. As the chief prosecutor in Italy's "trial of the century", he ha...

Sicilian judge Antonino Di Matteo is one of the most threatened - and protected - men in Italy. As the chief prosecutor in Italy's "trial of the century", he has more than 20 bodyguards, ensuring his safety around the clock. On trial are 10 men who stand accused of being part of a conspiracy between the mafia and the state. Five of the defendants are mafia bosses and five are members of the political establishment, including senior police chiefs and politicians. Central to Di Matteo's case is the story of Italy's most famous anti-mafia judges, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. During the 1980s they prosecuted hundreds of Cosa Nostra members in what was known as the Maxi Trial, the largest mafia court case in history. Four-hundred-and-seventy-five mafiosi were brought to court and 346 were found guilty. "For over 130 years in Italy we pretended the mafia didn't exist. Not until Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino did we have magistrates in Sicily who said, 'No. The mafia in Italy exists. The mafia in Sicily exists. And it's the judiciary's duty to fight and try to destroy the mafia'," says Saverio Lodato, author of Forty Years of Mafia. The Cosa Nostra "boss of bosses", Salvatore "Toto" Riina, had been tried in absentia and sentenced to life in prison. After the trial, Riina allegedly sought revenge. Judge Giovanni Falcone was assassinated on May 23, 1992 near the mafia heartland of Palermo. Two months later, while investigating Falcone's murder, Judge Paolo Borsellino was also killed by a massive car bomb in Via D'Amelio, a residential street in Palermo. Inspired by these two judges, Di Matteo is now taking up where they left off. He is trying to shine a light on Italy's so-called season of terror from 1991 to 1994, when the mafia organised a series of bombings and murders to force a negotiation with the government. "I was brought up with the legend of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. I was a law student when they were working on the Maxi Trial. In those men ... I saw a chance to fight back," Di Matteo says. He has received a series of death threats. In an attempt to halt the trial, Riina, who is now behind bars, called for Di Matteo's assassination. He was caught on a prison CCTV camera telling a fellow prisoner: "So if we can, kill him. It'll be an execution like we used to have in Palermo." Many Italians have taken to the streets in solidarity with the judge. But there has been a notable silence from political leaders. "We citizens are angry. The more we realise that no one is interested in Dr Di Matteo, the angrier we become," says Linda Grasso, the founder of CivilianBodyguards, a movement to protect the prosecutor. "I want to know the reason for this silence. What are they frightened of? Why are they silent? We can't allow this man, a hero to us, to suffer this silence and indifference from the institutions.... We want to protect our judges while they're alive, not commemorate them after their deaths." The threat to Di Matteo hasn't prevented the magistrate from attending the courtroom. The trial is ongoing and all of the accused deny the charges against them. "I am conflicted. To give up would be a personal defeat. But it would offer respite for me and my family. Finally, a margin of freedom. Maybe even tranquillity. But only maybe. Even if I gave up, it doesn't mean I would get fewer death threats," Di Matteo reflects. "We knew from the beginning that it would be an uphill struggle. A road littered with attacks, pitfalls, moments of difficulty. "I believe the truth about these massacres, which have made all decent Italians weep, can be found in the stories we are trying to open up. If we don't uncover our history we can't progress. We run the risk that this disease of the past that still plagues us today could infect our future." A Very Sicilian Justice, narrated by Helen Mirren, is an intimate portrait of an Italian judge living under constant threat as he tries to take on the mafia. Among those profiled in the film are a former mafia assassin-turned-state witness as well as Borsellino's brother, and the son of late former mayor of Palermo Vito Ciancimino, who was also known as "Don Vito".
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Sicilian judge Antonino Di Matteo is one of the most threatened - and protected - men in Italy. As the chief prosecutor in Italy's "trial of the century", he has more than 20 bodyguards, ensuring his safety around the clock. On trial are 10 men who stand accused of being part of a conspiracy between the mafia and the state. Five of the defendants are mafia bosses and five are members of the political establishment, including senior police chiefs and politicians. Central to Di Matteo's case is the story of Italy's most famous anti-mafia judges, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. During the 1980s they prosecuted hundreds of Cosa Nostra members in what was known as the Maxi Trial, the largest mafia court case in history. Four-hundred-and-seventy-five mafiosi were brought to court and 346 were found guilty. "For over 130 years in Italy we pretended the mafia didn't exist. Not until Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino did we have magistrates in Sicily who said, 'No. The mafia in Italy exists. The mafia in Sicily exists. And it's the judiciary's duty to fight and try to destroy the mafia'," says Saverio Lodato, author of Forty Years of Mafia. The Cosa Nostra "boss of bosses", Salvatore "Toto" Riina, had been tried in absentia and sentenced to life in prison. After the trial, Riina allegedly sought revenge. Judge Giovanni Falcone was assassinated on May 23, 1992 near the mafia heartland of Palermo. Two months later, while investigating Falcone's murder, Judge Paolo Borsellino was also killed by a massive car bomb in Via D'Amelio, a residential street in Palermo. Inspired by these two judges, Di Matteo is now taking up where they left off. He is trying to shine a light on Italy's so-called season of terror from 1991 to 1994, when the mafia organised a series of bombings and murders to force a negotiation with the government. "I was brought up with the legend of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. I was a law student when they were working on the Maxi Trial. In those men ... I saw a chance to fight back," Di Matteo says. He has received a series of death threats. In an attempt to halt the trial, Riina, who is now behind bars, called for Di Matteo's assassination. He was caught on a prison CCTV camera telling a fellow prisoner: "So if we can, kill him. It'll be an execution like we used to have in Palermo." Many Italians have taken to the streets in solidarity with the judge. But there has been a notable silence from political leaders. "We citizens are angry. The more we realise that no one is interested in Dr Di Matteo, the angrier we become," says Linda Grasso, the founder of CivilianBodyguards, a movement to protect the prosecutor. "I want to know the reason for this silence. What are they frightened of? Why are they silent? We can't allow this man, a hero to us, to suffer this silence and indifference from the institutions.... We want to protect our judges while they're alive, not commemorate them after their deaths." The threat to Di Matteo hasn't prevented the magistrate from attending the courtroom. The trial is ongoing and all of the accused deny the charges against them. "I am conflicted. To give up would be a personal defeat. But it would offer respite for me and my family. Finally, a margin of freedom. Maybe even tranquillity. But only maybe. Even if I gave up, it doesn't mean I would get fewer death threats," Di Matteo reflects. "We knew from the beginning that it would be an uphill struggle. A road littered with attacks, pitfalls, moments of difficulty. "I believe the truth about these massacres, which have made all decent Italians weep, can be found in the stories we are trying to open up. If we don't uncover our history we can't progress. We run the risk that this disease of the past that still plagues us today could infect our future." A Very Sicilian Justice, narrated by Helen Mirren, is an intimate portrait of an Italian judge living under constant threat as he tries to take on the mafia. Among those profiled in the film are a former mafia assassin-turned-state witness as well as Borsellino's brother, and the son of late former mayor of Palermo Vito Ciancimino, who was also known as "Don Vito".
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Joey Cantalupo Interview | FBI Informant | 1984 | HD
Joey Cantalupo being interviewed by Martin Short for the Crime Inc. documentary in 1984 (excerpts cut to make full interview)
Joseph "Joey" Cantalupo was an American Mafia associate from the Colombo Crime Family and later for being government informant. Cantalupo turned informant in 1972 and was a considerable asset to the FBI in prosecuting mafia trials. He has testified in court, written a book on his activities in organized crime and also appeared in mafia related documentaries as an authority on mafia life.
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Joey Cantalupo Interview | FBI Informant | 1984 | HD
Joey Cantalupo being interviewed by Martin Short for the Crime Inc. documentary in 1984 (excerpts cut to make full interview)
Joseph "Joey" Cantalupo was an American Mafia associate from the Colombo Crime Family and later for being government informant. Cantalupo turned informant in 1972 and was a considerable asset to the FBI in prosecuting mafia trials. He has testified in court, written a book on his activities in organized crime and also appeared in mafia related documentaries as an authority on mafia life.
"CopyrightDisclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
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"The Gambino Crime Family is one of the most recognizable criminal organizations in America. The family originated in the early 1900's under the leadership of Salvatore D'Aquila. They became one of New York's "Five Families" and participated in "The Commission," the governing board for organized crime families established by Charlie "Lucky" Luciano.
Salvatore D'Aquila was murdered in 1928 and control of the family went to Frank Scalise. Scalise only stayed in power for three years, but the next crime boss, Vincent Mangano ruled for two decades and helped to better establish the family as one of the biggest criminal organizations in the world. By 1951, Albert Anastasia had taken control, and he was best known for overseeing an organization called Murder Incorporated, which performed hundreds of Mob-related assassinations. Anastasia was not only thought to be extremely dangerous, but many of his own people considered him to be insane. His Crew plotted against him, and he was murdered in 1957.
The next head of the family was Carlo Gambino, one of the most successful crime bosses of all time. Gambino strengthened the family, increased their profit level immensely, and remained out of the public eye as much as possible. He managed to avoid being linked to any criminal activities and ran the family until 1976 without spending a single day in jail.
Gambino died in 1976 and left the family under the control of his brother-in-law, Paul Castellano. Although this angered Gambino's second-in-command, Aniello "Neil" Dellacroce, Castellano took over peacefully and kept Dellacroce in his esteemed position of authority. Many members of the organization were not happy with the way Castallano ran the family. They thought he acted too much like a business owner and not enough like a Don. Two weeks after the death of Dellacroce in 1985, Castellano was murdered following an order by one of his top people, John Gotti.
Gotti took over control of the Gambino Crime Family with his second-in-command, Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano. For years, Gotti managed to avoid criminal charges and successfully evaded a guilty verdict in three separate trials. This led to his nickname, "The Teflon Don," because no prosecutor was able to make any charges stick.
Things changed for Gotti in the early 1990's. His Underboss, Gravano, was arrested and gave authorities details about Gotti's criminal activities. Gotti was sentenced to life in prison, and his son John Gotti Jr. became heir to the family crime business."

"The Gambino Crime Family is one of the most recognizable criminal organizations in America. The family originated in the early 1900's under the leadership of Salvatore D'Aquila. They became one of New York's "Five Families" and participated in "The Commission," the governing board for organized crime families established by Charlie "Lucky" Luciano.
Salvatore D'Aquila was murdered in 1928 and control of the family went to Frank Scalise. Scalise only stayed in power for three years, but the next crime boss, Vincent Mangano ruled for two decades and helped to better establish the family as one of the biggest criminal organizations in the world. By 1951, Albert Anastasia had taken control, and he was best known for overseeing an organization called Murder Incorporated, which performed hundreds of Mob-related assassinations. Anastasia was not only thought to be extremely dangerous, but many of his own people considered him to be insane. His Crew plotted against him, and he was murdered in 1957.
The next head of the family was Carlo Gambino, one of the most successful crime bosses of all time. Gambino strengthened the family, increased their profit level immensely, and remained out of the public eye as much as possible. He managed to avoid being linked to any criminal activities and ran the family until 1976 without spending a single day in jail.
Gambino died in 1976 and left the family under the control of his brother-in-law, Paul Castellano. Although this angered Gambino's second-in-command, Aniello "Neil" Dellacroce, Castellano took over peacefully and kept Dellacroce in his esteemed position of authority. Many members of the organization were not happy with the way Castallano ran the family. They thought he acted too much like a business owner and not enough like a Don. Two weeks after the death of Dellacroce in 1985, Castellano was murdered following an order by one of his top people, John Gotti.
Gotti took over control of the Gambino Crime Family with his second-in-command, Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano. For years, Gotti managed to avoid criminal charges and successfully evaded a guilty verdict in three separate trials. This led to his nickname, "The Teflon Don," because no prosecutor was able to make any charges stick.
Things changed for Gotti in the early 1990's. His Underboss, Gravano, was arrested and gave authorities details about Gotti's criminal activities. Gotti was sentenced to life in prison, and his son John Gotti Jr. became heir to the family crime business."

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 2

This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

10:02:46

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 1

Summit 9-10 November 2017
This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern...

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 1

Summit9-10November 2017
This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

Romania: Organised crime prosecutor arrested for corruption

Anti-corruption officials have detained a chief Romanian prosecutor for questioning.
AlinaBica heads a government department investigating mafia,organized crime and terrorism.
She is accused of abusing a previous role on a ministry of justice committee by approving a government payment that was overvalued by 60 million euros.
The case is part of an investigation that so far extends to two of Bica's former colleagues as well as at least one businessman and an ethnic Hungarian MP.
Romania's n…
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The alleged owner of a chain of medical marijuana clinics faces criminal charges in one of the first cases of its kind in the state. Prosecutors said it's a criminal enterprise, a prescription mill generating millions of dollars, with most of the money laundered and sent overseas. Juliette Goodrich reports. (2/11/15)

Crimea’s chief prosecutor, who also happens to be an Internet meme and a cult cartoon icon, sees the peninsular clearer of crime than it had been before the referendum on joining Russia.
“We've achieved many positive results over the last two years since our reunification with Russia, results we didn’t see while it had been a part of Ukraine,” she said.
“Only now we managed to put forward charges against some of them, like Aleksandr Danilchenko and NikolayKozhukhar (leaders of the Bashmaki gang), who are in pretrial detention in Simpheropol. Andrey Laptev is already serving his sentence,” Poklonskaya said.
Channel "RT TV"
https://www.rt.com/news/335852-poklonskaya-crimea-prosecutor-popular/

Texas DAs Murdered By Organized Crime (the Aryan Brotherhood?...)

Criminal Minds writer and retired FBI agent, Jim Clemente discusses the circumstances that accompany the recent murders of several members of the district attorney's office in Texas, and the level of sophistication that imply that the criminals were organized.
Watch the full Crime Time with Jim Clemente discussing the Texas DA murders and more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Z490udFDc

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How the US government is using blockchain to fight fraud | Kathryn Haun | TEDxSanFrancisco

Kathryn is sharing about the first case of the US government using blockchain to fight fr...

How the US government is using blockchain to fight fraud | Kathryn Haun | TEDxSanFrancisco

Kathryn is sharing about the first case of the US government using blockchain to fight fraud. She is sharing about how they could shut down the silk road and even indicted federal agents in the process.
Based in San Francisco, Kathryn Haun is a federal prosecutor with the U.S.Department of Justice and is its first-ever coordinator for emerging financial technologies. Since 2006, she has served as an AssistantU.S. Attorney, first in the Washington D.C. area and later in San Francisco, California. She has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of violations of federal criminal law in U.S. courts, with a focus on organized crime syndicates, cybercrime, the Dark Net, and fraud. In addition to her role at the Justice Department, she teaches Stanford Law School’s first-ever course on Cybercrime and Digital Currency and is frequently called on by U.S. and international policymakers for her expertise in these areas.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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Interior min, prosecutor for organised crime give press conference

(12 Apr 2012) 1. Close up shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressioni...

Interior min, prosecutor for organised crime give press conference

(12 Apr 2012) 1. Close up shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressionist Paul Cezanne
2. Medium shot of "The Boy in the Red Vest" painting by French impressionist Paul Cezanne on a easel guarded by two hooded and armed special unit policemen
3. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Ivica Dacic, Serbian Interior Minister:
"In a joint operation with Swiss colleagues, in an action that took place over the last two days, four people were arrested, from whom this painting was confiscated. We also confiscated around 1.5 million euros, around 60 thousand swiss francs, four vehicles, five guns, etcetera."
4. Wide shot of Interior Minister Dacic at press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Miljko Radisavljevic, Serbia's Organised Crimes Prosecutor:
"The Boy in the Red Vest by Paul Cezanne will be returned to its owner. Serbia's police and prosecution raised the criminal charges in Serbia against these people who committed criminal acts in Switzerland."
6. Wide shot of the police officials looking at the painting
STORYLINE:
A masterpiece by French impressionist Paul Cezanne, which was stolen from a private Swiss museum in 2008, has been recovered in Serbia, police said on Thursday.
During a news conference in the capital Belgrade, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic described the operation.
"In a joint operation with Swiss colleagues, in an action that took place over the last two days, four people were arrested, from whom this painting was confiscated," he said, and money, weapons and vehicles were also seized.
The officials played a video showing how police had arrested one of the four suspects in a Belgrade suburb and found the painting in the roof upholstery of a black van, handcuffed the driver and dragged him away.
Dacic confirmed that the four, including the leader of the gang that conducted the robbery, were arrested in raids in the capital Belgrade and the central city of Cacak on Wednesday and Thursday.
Officials displayed "The Boy in the Red Vest" by the French impressionist, with two masked Serbian special policemen armed with machine guns standing alongside it.
A Swiss expert authenticated the oil on canvas painting, which was stolen from the E. G. Buhrle Collection in Zurich, along with three other masterpieces by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Edgar Degas.
Zurich prosecutors also said that the museum certified that the painting is the original by Cezanne.
The work was worth 100 millionSwiss francs (110 (m) million US dollars) when it was stolen by three masked gunmen who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, in what was one of the biggest art thefts in Europe.
Art experts have suggested the robbers took advantage of a low-security Swiss museum without knowing about the paintings or how difficult it can be to sell such well-known stolen art works.
Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said the police raids, planned since 2010, took place when the suspected robbers decided to take the painting to a wealthy Serb who agreed to buy it for 4.6 (m) million US dollars.
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Cybercrime Is Likened To Organized Crime

Federal prosecutors are using mob-busting tactics to catch and disrupt online crooks, appl...

Cybercrime Is Likened To Organized Crime

Federal prosecutors are using mob-busting tactics to catch and disrupt online crooks, applying a law written to dismantle Mafia families to pursue loose affiliations of thieves scattered around the world. The capacity of hackers and thieves to steal millions of dollars—in part through online marketplaces on which they can trade stolen credit-card numbers—is prompting concern among prosecutors.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/cybercrime-is-likened-to-organized-crime-1404841253?mod=rss_Technology
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Attorney generals and prosecutors discuss fight against crime

(1 Mar 2012)
1. Various of officials posing for group photo
2. Wide of Adam Blackwell, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary for Multidimensional Security approaching podium
3. Wide of Blackwell addressing crowd
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Adam Blackwell, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary for Multidimensional Security:
"The participation of criminal bands in the election process, threatening or even murdering candidates and in many cases imposing their own candidates, is another expression of the risks that organised crime pose to the preservation of our democratic institutions."
5. Wide of crowd
6. Mid of photographers
7. Wide of Antonio Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Mazzitelli, Head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America:
"Because of their (criminal gangs) capacity to create new markets, diversify their goods and services offering, overcome borders, develop alliances thanks to a series of networks always harder to detect and prosecute, we must step up our efforts."
9. Wide of Mazzitelli addressing crowd
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Mazzitelli, Head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America:
"I am sure that the terrible price all citizens of the hemisphere are paying, and the blood of so many public servants, police officers, prosecutors and judges and innocent victims won't be spilt in vain."
11. Mid of cameraman and sign language interpreter
12. Wide of Mazzitelli
STORYLINE:
Members of the Organisation of American States (OAS) met in Mexico City on Thursday, with organised crime in the region topping the agenda.
Mexico has expressed its concern about the possibility of criminal bands interfering in upcoming presidential elections after finding evidence that criminals sought to influence a recent election in the western state of Michoacan.
Adam Blackwell, OAS secretary for Multidimensional Security, said transnational organised crime threatened economic and democratic stability.
"The participation of criminal bands in the election process," said Blackwell, "is another expression of the risks that organised crime pose to the preservation of our democratic institutions."
Antonio Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America, said said the fight against organised crime needed to be stepped up and will serve to strengthen public institutions.
"I am sure that the terrible price all citizens of the hemisphere are paying, and the blood of so many public servants, police officers, prosecutors and judges and innocent victims won't be spilt in vain," said Mazzitelli.
The two-day meeting will gather prosecutors and attorney generals of the 34 active members to discuss solutions to fight transnational drug organisations.
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Federal prosecutors are charging dozens of reputed members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey

Federal prosecutors are charging dozens of reputed members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey

HEADLINE: Gambino crime family rounded up, charged
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CAPTION: Federal prosecutors are charging dozens of reputed members of the Gambino crime family in New Jersey and New York with murders, drug trafficking, robberies and extortion. It's one of the largest mob takedowns in recent memory. (Feb. 8)
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After a massive roundup of alleged top mafia figures, is there a power vacuum in New York City's organized crime underworld?
The government says yes.
((FONT: BentonCampbell, US Attorney))
"I would say it does create a significant vacuum. START VO OF MOBSTERS It's a significant issue that organized crime will now have to address because many of their members are either in custody or facing federal charges."
The "bread and butter" of mafia income is sports betting, and experts say there will always be someone willing to muscle forward and take the kick-ups from those lucrative bets.
((FONT: Bruce Cutler, MafiaAttorney))
"Gambling is an obsession with this country, they even have it on television."
Thursday the government took into custody what it says is the top tier leadership of the Gambino family.
((show photo of D'Amico))
((1992))
Those include reputed boss, John D'Amico, a-k-a Jackie the Nose.
The feds say he runs the family's vast network of criminal enterprises, and has a penchant for gourmet food and gambling.
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Alleged underboss and extortionist Domenico Cefalu, nicknamed "The Greaseball" is known for his old-school allegiance to the "omerta" code of mafia behavior, though he did time for heroin trafficking.
((show video of Carneglia in perp walk))
Accused Gambino soldier Charles Carneglia, called "Charlie Canig" by associates, is charged with five killings, including two men who had no connection to the mob.
((show video of Cali in perp walk))
The feds say Frank Cali, an alleged mafia captain, is the family's "bridge" to crime families in Sicily.
((show photo))
While Nicholas Corozzo, aka "Little Nick" is charged in connection with various construction project shakedowns across the city.
But mafia attorney Bruce Cutler, who has represented such notable mobsters as John Gotti, says racketeering cases are often difficult to prove.
"When you take away the labels, and the stripes, and the mafia, and the La Cosa Nostra and the blood oath, and all the Hollywood hype and the Sopranos business, where is the proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the client did or agreed to have something done on behalf of this enterprise?"
The government is proving it will aggressively prosecute the resurgent mafia.
((FONT: Thomas De Maria, NY Waterfront Commission))
"We will continue to be tenacious and ever vigilant to pursue and eradicate any criminal element that seeks to perpetrate evil in this great port and this great city."
In the meantime, it remains to be seen whether yet un named Gambino figures will step into the power gap, or those from other criminal organizations.
Ted Shaffrey, The Associated Press, New York
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Retailers face new threat: Organized crime

Retailers face new threat: Organized crime
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Retailers face new threat: Organized crime

Retailers face new threat: Organized crime
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Organized theft has surpassed internal theft to become the leading cause of retail loss, said RobertMoraca, vice president of loss prevention for the National Retail Federation. (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun video)
Lorraine MirabellaContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
They looked like any other shoppers browsing iPads and Apple Watches at the Apple Store in Towson.
But a security guard saw something amiss in the behavior of the four men in the store at Towson Town Center. Two of them — one wearing a blue jogging outfit, the other dressed in black pants and shirt — were acting as lookouts, blocking the views of sales associates. The other two were scooping up display items and slipping them into their vests. Then they all headed for the exit.
They didn’t get far. They were stopped by security guards, and police arrested three. The men, all from the Eastern European nation of Georgia, had driven down from New York in a minivan, police and prosecutors say. Inside, they say, officers found dozens of Apple devices.
The men were accused of stealing more than $1,500 worth of iPods and software. They were convicted last year of theft.
For retailers, simple shoplifting is an unavoidable cost of doing business. But now, industry analysts and law enforcement officials say, a greater threat is emerging: theft and fraud by highly organized criminal rings.
The high-stakes enterprises often operate across state lines. They might employ teams of “boosters” — often the homeless or the drug addicted — who go into stores to steal everything from laundry detergent and baby formula to designer clothes and diamonds. They fence stolen goods at pawn shops, kiosks, vans on the street and, increasingly, online auction sites.
And they’re becoming more brazen and more dangerous, analysts say, in some cases attacking store employees and even shoppers.
“We probably see organized retail crime incidents across our stores every day,” said Jim Cosseboom, manager of investigations and corporate asset protection for the supermarket operator Ahold USA, parent company of Giant, FoodLion and other chains.
“What they’re targeting is always shifting,” he says, from detergent to razor blades to seafood. But it’s anything “that can easily be sold for quick cash. …
“It’s a significant concern.”
Organized theft has surpassed internal theft to become the leading cause of retail loss, said Robert Moraca, vice president of loss prevention for the National Retail Federation. Analysts say the increase has been fueled by the opioid epidemic and by the growing understanding among criminals that theft can be quick, easy and profitable.
In a well choreographed assault, Moraca says, thieves can clear shelves of thousands of dollars’ worth of goods in minutes.
“And that’s happening in multiples,” he says. “It’s not just a group that gets together and wants to steal. These are groups that already exist for criminal purposes,” such as drug trafficking and human trafficking.
“These are hardened criminals, and they get into organized retail crime because it’s extremely profitable.”
Individual retailers contacted by The Sun were reluctant to discuss details. But the National Retail Federation reported that organized crime cost retailers $30 billion last year. The group recently surveyed retailers on organized crime; all of the respondents said they had been victimized in the previous year. They said they were spending an average of $545,000 on employees dedicated to fighting organized crime, an all-time high.
Coordinated efforts between retailers, store security, law enforcement and prosecutors have helped, analysts say, as has the emergence of associations focused on fighting organized retail crime. The Mid-Atlantic Organized Retail CrimeAlliance, which includes Maryland, brings together retailers, law enforcement, security and loss prevention officials to share data and intelligence on organized theft, robberies, counterfeiting, check and credit card fraud and other scams.
Thirty-four states have enacted laws against organized retail crime. Maryland has not. The Maryland Retailers Association wants legislation that would distinguish between organized retail theft and other types of theft.
“Being on the I-95 corridor, we are particularly susceptible to organized retail crime,” association President Cailey Locklair Tolle says. “Shoplifting in Maryland, both the instances of theft and the dollar amount that’s stolen every year, has steadily been on the rise, and part of it does have to do with organized retail crime.”
The group is concerned that the increase in the state threshold for felony theft from $1,000 to $1,500 last year will encourage more organized rings to operate in Maryland. The Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention looked at theft classifica

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Organized Crime at It's Worst

Pam Bondi has a proven record of prosecuting Florida's organized crime.

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 2

This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

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Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 1

Summit 9-10 November 2017
This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern...

Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime – Day 1

Summit9-10November 2017
This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and must be recognised as such, following numerous requests and definitions by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.As Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, I am honoured and grateful that through outstanding efforts by the United NationsGoal 8.7 was included amongst the Sustainable Development Goals. This was the fruit of a meeting that took place in the Casina Pio IV between Pope Francis and the Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon. Goal 8.7 states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. Read more: http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/events/2017/women_judges.html

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Gregor McGill, Head of Organised Crime Division, Crown Prosecution Service

Gregor McGill, Head of the Organised Crime Division at the Crown Prosecution Service speak...

A number of allegations have been written about and several local, state, and federal investigations have taken place related to the notion of the Mena Airport as a CIA drop point in large scale cocaine trafficking beginning in the latter part of the 1980s. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805028048/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805028048&linkCode=as2&tag=tra0c7-20&linkId=c13ed0962050eee3b1d55b9a187dfe42
The topic has received some press coverage that has included allegations of awareness, participation and/or coverup involvement of figures such as future presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W.Bush, and George W. Bush, as well future Florida GovernorJeb Bush and Saline County prosecutor Dan Harmon (who was convicted of numerous felonies including drug and racketeering charges in 1997). The Mena airport was also associated with Adler Berriman (Barry) Seal, an American drug smuggler and aircraft pilot who flew covert flights for the CIA and the Medellín Cartel.
A criminal investigator from the Arkansas State Police, Russell Welch, who was assigned to investigate Mena airport claimed that he opened a letter which released electrostatically charged Anthrax spores in his face, and that he had his life saved after a prompt diagnosis by a doctor. He also claimed that later, his doctor's office was vandalized, robbed, and test results and correspondence with the CDC in Atlanta were stolen.
An investigation by the CIA's inspector general concluded that the CIA had no involvement in or knowledge of any illegal activities that may have occurred in Mena. The report said that the agency had conducted a training exercise at the airport in partnership with another Federal agency and that companies located at the airport had performed "routine aviation-related services on equipment owned by the CIA".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
The Whitewater controversy (also called the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.
A New York Times article written in March 1992, during the 1992U.S. presidential campaign, reported that the Clintons had invested and lost money in the Whitewater development project.[1] The article stimulated the interest of L. Jean Lewis, a Resolution Trust Corporation investigator who was looking into the failure of Madison GuarantySavings and Loan, owned by McDougal. She looked for connections between the savings and loan company and the Clintons, and on September 2, 1992, she submitted a criminal referral to the FBI naming Bill and Hillary Clinton as witnesses in the Madison Guaranty case. Little RockU.S. AttorneyCharles A. Banks and the FBI determined that the referral lacked merit, but she continued to pursue it. Between 1992 and 1994 she issued several additional referrals against the Clintons and repeatedly called the U.S. Attorney's Office in Little Rock and the Justice Department about the case.[2] Her referrals eventually became public knowledge, and she testified before the Senate Whitewater Committee in 1994.
David Hale, the source of criminal allegations against President Clinton in the Whitewater affair, claimed in November 1993 that Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, pressured him to provide an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, the partner of the Clintons in the Whitewater land deal.[3] Clinton supporters regarded Hale's allegations as questionable, as Hale had not mentioned Clinton in reference to this loan during the original FBI investigation of Madison Guaranty in 1989. Only after coming under indictment for this in 1993 did Hale make allegations against the Clintons.[4]
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation did result in convictions against the McDougals for their role in the Whitewater project, but the Clintons themselves were never prosecuted, as three separate inquiries found insufficient evidence linking them with the criminal conduct of others related to the land deal.[5] Bill Clinton's successor as Arkansas Governor, Jim Guy Tucker, was also convicted and served time in prison for his role in the fraud. Susan McDougal later served 18 months in prison for contempt of court for refusing to answer any questions relating to Whitewater, and was later granted a pardon by President Clinton just before leaving office.
The term Whitewater is also sometimes used to include other controversies from the Bill Clinton administration, especially those such as Travelgate, Filegate, and the circumstances surrounding Vince Foster's death, that were investigated by the Whitewater Independent Counsel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy

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How the US government is using blockchain to fight fraud | Kathryn Haun | TEDxSanFrancisco

Kathryn is sharing about the first case of the US government using blockchain to fight fr...

How the US government is using blockchain to fight fraud | Kathryn Haun | TEDxSanFrancisco

Kathryn is sharing about the first case of the US government using blockchain to fight fraud. She is sharing about how they could shut down the silk road and even indicted federal agents in the process.
Based in San Francisco, Kathryn Haun is a federal prosecutor with the U.S.Department of Justice and is its first-ever coordinator for emerging financial technologies. Since 2006, she has served as an AssistantU.S. Attorney, first in the Washington D.C. area and later in San Francisco, California. She has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of violations of federal criminal law in U.S. courts, with a focus on organized crime syndicates, cybercrime, the Dark Net, and fraud. In addition to her role at the Justice Department, she teaches Stanford Law School’s first-ever course on Cybercrime and Digital Currency and is frequently called on by U.S. and international policymakers for her expertise in these areas.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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Murder Incorporated | "Murder, Inc."

Murder, Inc. (or Murder Incorporated) was the name the news media gave to organized crime ...

Inside the American Mob - End game

Documentary film about the Italian Mafia and their organized crime activities in USA, mainly New York, between the '60's to mid '90's. Well documented with plenty of interviews and original footage. Story told by ex-members of Mafia, FBI agents and prosecutors at that time, cops and journalists. It explains how they functioned, the rule of silence called Omerta, which five families ruled New York and how; and also how the FBI and US government managed to dismantle them after 30 years of the crime syndicate being untouchable. Listen to what Rudy Giuliani, Joseph D. Pistone aka 'Donnie Brasko' and many others had to say about it.

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James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. organized crime boss

James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former...

James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. organized crime boss

James JosephWhitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. (/ˈbʌldʒər/; born September 3, 1929) is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
James Joseph Whitey Bulger, Jr. is an American former organized crime boss of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston. Federal prosecutors indicted Bulger for 19 .

1:09:39

Regulation by Prosecutors: Monitoring and Compliance Oversight

This is a video of the fourth panel from "Regulation By Prosecutors", the inaugural annual...